A.V. Roe and Company - generally known as Avro - British aircraft manufacturer founded by Alliott Verdon Roe
The Tudor was a pressurised but problematic post-war Avro airliner which faced strong competition from designs by Bristol, Canadair, Douglas, Handley Page, and Lockheed.
The Avro 562 Avis was a two-seat light biplane designed and built by the A.V.Roe and Company Limited at Hamble for the 1924 Lympne Light Aeroplane Trials.
In 1934, Rothman went to work at Avro in Newton Heath and instantly became an officer of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU).
Moves to establish an airport at Mackay began in 1927, when Captain Ron Adair selected the site of the town commons for the construction of an aerodrome, and landed the first plane in Mackay there, his own Avro biplane.
(A.V. Roe was the first British aviator and founder of Avro Aircraft Company).
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1933 Imperial Airways Ruysselede crash in which Avro Ten G-ABLU crashed with the loss of 10 lives.
The 1958 Dan-Air Avro York airplane crash was a fatal accident involving an Avro York 685 York C.1 cargo aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on a non-scheduled international all-cargo service between Karachi, Pakistan, and New Delhi, India.
A.V. Roe Canada - known as Avro Canada - Canadian subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley (the parent of Avro)
Akkabi became a national celebrity as 'Rachid the merchandiser' in Albert Heijn commercials and for his roles as 'Appie' in Het Huis Anubis, 'Youssef' in the cinema movie Alibi and for presenting AVRO Kunstquest.
He presented the AVRO programmes Superclean Dreammachine (1968–1980) and TopPop (1970–1985).
12 March 1950 - Avro Tudor G-AKBY while operating a rugby charter, crashed on approach to RAF Llandow in Wales with 80 fatalities.
In the early 1920s, Frank Neale started an aviation company there with a larger Avro 504 3 seater.
The first flight was on 19 December 1916 at Avro's Hamble factory.
By March 1919, Avro sent the first prototype to Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Martlesham Heath for official trials before its eventual return to the Avro factory at Hamble.
In service at Blackpool, Avro 536s flown by three pilots were able to fly around 500 passengers on their first day of operation.
Chinese Nationalist Air Force - China had 5 Avro 631 deployed at Liuzhou Aviation School during the Second Sino-Japanese War, all of which were lost due to Japanese bombing in 1939.
In 1947, Fred Smye, president of Avro, advised Herbert James Symington of TCA that they could not meet the fixed price contract.
In the UK, Avro and Handley Page both drew up proposals for a large bomber based on two Rolls-Royce Vulture engines.
In 1925 a single engined Avro 504K bi-plane registered as G-EATB crashed landed on Chippenham Mead.
Gerardus Johannes Henri (Gert-Jan) Dröge (23 April 1943, in Enschede – 5 June 2007, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch television presenter, producer, actor, journalist and writer who mainly became known from his society programme Glamourland on AVRO television.
At that time four aircraft were at various stages of production at the Avro plant at Yeadon, West Yorkshire.
Jan van Herpen was born in Deventer, and was employed by the Dutch broadcasting organization AVRO from February 1, 1940.
On 20 February 1959, the infamous "Black Friday", Żurakowski, along with the approximately 15,000 employees of Avro and Orenda plants learned that the Diefenbaker government had precipitously cancelled the Avro Arrow program and its Orenda Iroquois engine.
John Carver Meadows Frost (1915–1979), British aircraft designer for the Avro Aircraft Company amongst others
22 December 1926: John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler (1892–1933), the chief test pilot of A.V.Roe Avro Manchester, land on Helvellyn in the Lake District (the first aeroplane to land on a mountain in Great Britain)
In 1928 she met Bert Hinkler (Harry Bonney's first cousin once removed), a Queensland aviator who had set a solo England–Australia record in his Avro Avian biplane (now in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane).
Humphrey Verdon Roe, his brother, was co-founder of Avro and also co-founder of the first birth control clinic in Britain with Marie Stopes.
This also included No. 55 Training Squadron utilising the Avro 504, Camel, Sopwith Pup and the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5A.
Thereafter she became a freelance documentary filmmaker, working mainly for Dutch TV stations, like the NOS, NCRV, AVRO, Human TV, TROS, Veronica, IKON, VPRO, and the BOS, Buddhist Broadcasting Station.
The single example built was used for a while as a trainer at the Avro Flying School at Brooklands, where several pilots who were to become famous learnt to fly in it, including Howard Pixton, who gained his Aero Club certificate in it on 24 January 1911.
The worst fatal accident in Scottish Airlines' history occurred on 18 February 1956, when one of the company's Avro 685 York C.1 airliners (registration: G-ANSY) crashed on its way from Egypt to the United Kingdom after taking off from Luqa Airport, Malta, killing all 50 occupants (45 service personnel and five crew).
They continued to perform on De bonte dinsdagavondtrein, which was an immensely popular program; they traveled by train to Hilversum every Tuesday where they were received by a crowd of fans and an orchestra, who accompanied to the AVRO studio.
In 2005 Breugel switched from RTL to the Dutch public television broadcasting association AVRO where she presented the Junior Songfestival, the presentation of the Televisierring and Help, ik word vader! (Help, I'm becoming a father).
Several European aircraft types were used in fairly large numbers during the twenties, among them sixteen Avro 504Ks, thirteen Breguet 14s, five Castaibert 913-IVs, twenty-eight Nieuport 27s.
The Malton plant went on to build by war's end, a total of 3,629 Avro aircraft: 3,197 Ansons, 430 Mk X Lancasters (including six Lancastrian transport conversions), one Mk XV Lincoln heavy bomber, and a single York transport.
Avro had a factory next to Yeadon Aerodrome from 1938 to 1946 which produced many of the company's wartime planes, including the Lancaster, Lincoln, York and Anson.