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5 unusual facts about Avro 504


Chippenham Park, Monmouth

In 1925 a single engined Avro 504K bi-plane registered as G-EATB crashed landed on Chippenham Mead.

Eric Gordon England

--joined the design office of--> for Frederick Sage & Company, who were building Short-designed seaplanes and Avro 504Ks under licence.

Parnall

Parnall received large orders from the Admiralty to build aircraft designed by other manufacturers, principally the Avro 504 and Short Admiralty Type 827 (of which 20 were built).

RAF Thornaby

The first squadron to occupy the new airfield were No. 608, who were formed here as No. 608 County of York (North Riding) squadron on 17 March 1930, under the command of a Flying Instructor, Squadron Leader William Howard-Davies, and operating Westland Wapitis and Avro 504Ns.

The Joy Ride

It is Autumn 1921, and following the death of his aunt Kate, Lady Castleton, James uses some of the money he has been given in her will to buy himself an Avro 504 aeroplane for £375.


John Alexander Douglas McCurdy

Formed on December 15, 1916, when the Imperial Munitions Board bought the Curtiss (Canada) aircraft operation in Toronto (opened in 1916 as Toronto Curtiss Aeroplanes), Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. manufactured the JN-4 (Can) Canuck, the Felixstowe F5L flying boat, and the Avro 504.

Leadenham Aerodrome

No. 90 Squadron RAF (1918-1919) detachment from Buckminster Aerodrome with Avro 504K night fighters.

Uruguayan Air Force

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.


see also

Ashingdon

In the early 1920s, Frank Neale started an aviation company there with a larger Avro 504 3 seater.

RAF Lilbourne

This also included No. 55 Training Squadron utilising the Avro 504, Camel, Sopwith Pup and the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5A.