- Avro Aldershot
infobox Aircraft
name = Aldershot
type = Heavy Bomber
manufacturer =Avro
caption =
designer =
first flight = 1922Sharpe, Michael. "Biplanes, Triplanes, an Seaplanes". London, England: Friedman/Fairfax Books , 2000. ISBN 1-58663-300-7.]
introduced = 1924
retired = avyear|1925
produced =~15
number built =
status = Retired
unit cost =
primary user =No. 99 Squadron Royal Air Force
more users =
developed from =
variants with their own articles = The Avro 549 Aldershot was a British single-engined bomber aircraft built byAvro .History
The Aldershot was designed to meet the 1920 British
Air Ministry Specification 2/20 for an interim bomber design. In competition with thede Havilland Derby the ministry gave Avro a contract for two Aldershot I prototypes, both of which first flew atHamble Aerodrome in 1922. As a result of test flying the originalRolls Royce Condor engine was replaced with the water-cooledNapier Cub and the fuselage was lengthened by 6 ft. One of the prototypes was converted to this standard as the Aldershot II.In 1923 the Air Ministry ordered 15 aircraft under the designation Aldershot III. The only operator of the aircraft was
No. 99 Squadron RAF which formed on the 1 April 1924. The Aldershot was used for night flying, but by 1925 the Air Ministry had decided only to operate multi-engined bombers and the Aldershots were replaced by theHandley Page Hyderabad .The only Aldershot II was re-engined with an 850 hp (634 kW)
Beardmore Typhoon I inline engine as the Avro 549C Aldershot IV for test flying.Operators
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*Royal Air Force
**No. 99 Squadron RAF pecifications (Aldershot III)
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*de Havilland Derby lists=
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References
*cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985)|year= |publisher= Orbis Publishing|location= |issn=
External links
* [http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/aircraftpage.php?ID=270 British Aircraft Directory]
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