The aircraft was completed at Cricklewood, dismantled and taken to the newer Handley Page site at Radlett for its first flight on 8 May 1935, piloted by Major J.L.B.H. Cordes.
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He was traveling to London to join the Secretary of State's Indian Council, when the Imperial Airways flight he was flying in, Handley Page H.P.42 "Hannibal", crashed in the Gulf of Oman killing everyone aboard.
In November 1934 the Air Ministry agreed, reluctantly, to accept the sole H.P.46: it left Handley Page's Radlett works in April 1935 by road to Farnborough Airfield and did not fly again.
The H.P.47 continued to fly at the RAE, testing its combination of slots, interceptors and flaps at low speeds.
They were used to refuel Short Empire Flying Boats on transatlantic services, two were based in Gander, Newfoundland and one based in Foynes, Ireland.
On a return trip to the United Kingdom from India on an Imperial Airways Handley Page H.P.42 it disappeared without trace over the Gulf of Oman 1 March 1940 with eight on board.
The signal was detected by the antenna in Pleumeur-Bodou, France, and is thought to be coming from a Handley Page 'Heracles' aeroplane that disappeared in 1933 while carrying important Intelligence Service documents.