Airspeed Viceroy

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AS.8 Viceroy
Airspeed Viceroy.jpg
RoleRacing Monoplane
Manufacturer Airspeed (1934) Ltd
Designer N.S. Norway / Hessell Tiltman
First flight1934
Introduction1934
StatusUnknown
Produced1934
Number built1
Developed from Airspeed Envoy

The Airspeed AS.8 Viceroy was a British racing version of the Airspeed AS.6 Envoy built by Airspeed (1934) Limited at Portsmouth. The Viceroy was built to order for Captain T. Neville Stack and Sydney Lewis Turner, to compete in the England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race. Only one aircraft, registered G-ACMU, was built.

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Design and development

The Viceroy was a modified Airspeed Envoy. Modifications included:

Operational history

The Airspeed Viceroy started the race from RAF Mildenhall, England, but after several reliability problems including with the mainwheel brakes, it was withdrawn from the race at Athens. The pilots concluded that it would be unsafe to proceed and they would probably be unable to finish the race. An acrimonious set of legal actions followed, with the pilots complaining that the aircraft, beset by multiple problems, had been "not really ready". Airspeed contested the action, and eventually the aircraft was returned to them without refund. The aircraft returned to Portsmouth and was then stored until July 1936 when it was sold the following month by the French concern, SFTA and departed to France en route to the Spanish Civil War.

Documentation regarding the Viceroy's service with the Spanish Republican Air Force is sketchy. The intention was to convert the aircraft into a bomber and photographs suggest that it did receive new markings and was stationed at an airbase, but further information is not available as to its actual service. [1]

Operators

AS.8 Viceroy in Spanish Republican Air Force colour scheme Airspeed Viceroy drawing.jpg
AS.8 Viceroy in Spanish Republican Air Force colour scheme
Flag of Spain 1931 1939.svg  Spanish Republic

Specifications

Data from British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 1 [2]

General characteristics

Performance

See also

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References

  1. Airspeed AS.6 Envoy/AS-8 Viceroy (1) [ permanent dead link ]
  2. Jackson 1974, p. 24
  3. Jackson 1974, p. 20.