AVRO 621 Tutor

Nearly 400 Tutors were supplied plus considerable export orders. Many contempories considered the Tutor as the companies saviour. The basic Tutor airframe was modified to produce the Type 626 as a multi-role machine with a gun ring aft of the cockpits and bomb racks under the lower wings. This formula proved a great success and the aircraft was supplied to many Air Forces, e.g. Argentina, Belgium,
Egypt and Greece. Production did not end until late 1939.

The Tutor was too large for the civilian market, so a scaled-down version named Cadet was built in 1931. Produced in several versions, including a fleet of 40 for Air Service Training Ltd. At Hamble and 34 for the Royal Australian Air Force, of which the last were only delivered in 1939.

(Colour Photograph - An Avro Tutor of the RAF)

Hawker Audax

By the mid 1930s re-armament was under way, and in June 1935 Avros became part of the Hawker Siddeley organization. The same year Avros were asked to build the Hawker Audax advanced trainer for the RAF. Nearly 300 of these classic 1930s biplanes were built between February 1936 and June 1937.

(Monochrome Photograph - Hawker Audax advanced trainers on assembly at Woodford.)