List of Airspeed aircraft

Last updated October 27, 2023

This is a list of aircraft produced or proposed by Airspeed Limited a British aircraft manufacturer from 1931 to 1951.

List of aircraft and projects

Model^[1]	Name	First flight	Remarks
AS.1	Tern	1931	Sailplane
AS.2			Glider project
AS.3			Two-seat monoplane project
AS.4	Ferry	1932	Ten-seat biplane
AS.5	Courier	1933	Five-seat monoplane
AS.6	Envoy	1934	Six-seat monoplane
AS.7			Projected military variants of the Envoy
AS.8	Viceroy	1934	Racing variant of the Envoy
AS.9			Eight-gun fighter project
AS.10	Oxford	1937	Twin-engined advanced trainer
AS.11	Courier		Projected all-metal variant for the Canadian-market
AS.12			Four-engined aircraft project
AS.14	Ambassador		Twin-engined 16-seat transport
AS.15			Bomber project
AS.16			planned licence build of Fokker F.XXII four-engine transport
AS.17			planned licence build of Fokker D.XVII single-seat fighter for Greece.
AS.18			Projected variant of the AS.17
AS.19			Fokker D.XIX single-seat fighter
AS.20			planned licence build of Fokker F.XXXVI transport
AS.21			Fokker D.XX single-seat fighter
AS.22			Fokker C.X two-seat fighter
AS.23			planned licence-built Douglas DC-2. None manufactured.
AS.24			Mailplane variant of the AS.14
AS.26			Gun-carrying biplane
AS.27	Irvine biplanes (2)	1936 (August)	Special defence-aircraft to Specification 38/35, two prototypes ordered by the Air Ministry but not built.^[2] Carrying a winch with 2000 feet of steel cable, to be released above cloud so that enemy bombers would not know where to expect barrage cables. the scheme was abandoned.^[3]
AS.28			Twin-engined passenger transport
AS.29			Bomber to Specification B.1/35
AS.30	Queen Wasp	1937	Radio-controlled target to Specification 32/35
AS.31			Twin-boom rear mounted cockpit fighter project to Specification F.35/35^[4]
AS.32			Airliner project
AS.33			24-seat airliner project
AS.34			Airliner project
AS.35			Airliner project
AS.36			Two-seat trainer to Specification T.1/37
AS.37			Radio-controlled flying boat target to specification Q.8/37
AS.38			Variant of the AS.30 for communications duties
AS.39	Fleet Shadower	1939	Naval observation aircraft to Specification S.23.37
AS.40	Oxford	1938	Radio-research variant of the Oxford
AS.41			Experimental Leonides-powered variant of the Oxford
AS.42	Oxford	1938	Variant of the Oxford for New Zealand to specification T.39/37
AS.43	Oxford	1938	Survey variant of the AS.42
AS.44			Oxford replacement project
AS.45	Cambridge	1941	Single-engined trainer to Specification T.4/39
AS.46	Oxford V	1942	Winterised variant of the Oxford
AS.47			Twin-boom bomber project
AS.48			Single-seat night fighter project
AS.49			Single-seat fighter/trainer to Specification T.24/40
AS.50	Queen Wasp		Production aircraft
AS.51	Horsa I	1941	Troop-carrying glider
AS.52	Horsa	1941	Bomb-carrying glider
AS.53			Vehicle transport variant of the Horsa
AS.54			Two-seat training glider to Specification TX.3/43
AS.55			Freighter project
AS.56			Single-seat fighter to Specification F.6/42
AS.57	Ambassador	1947	Airliner
AS.58	Horsa II	1943	Vehicle transport glider
AS.59	Ambassador II		Re-engined Ambassador project
AS.60	Ayrshire		Military transport variant of the Ambassador to Specification C.13/45
AS.61			Dakota I conversions
AS.62			Dakota II conversions
AS.63			Dakota III conversions
AS.64			Military transport variant of the Ambassador to Specification C.26/43
AS.65	Consul	1946	Civil version of the Oxford
AS.66			Freighter variant of the Ambassador
AS.67			Freighter variant of the Ambassador

Related Research Articles

Airspeed Limited was established in 1931 to build aeroplanes in York, England, by A. H. Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway. The other directors were A. E. Hewitt, Lord Grimthorpe and Alan Cobham. Amy Johnson was also one of the initial subscribers for shares.

Nevil Shute Norway was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or from fellow engineers that he was "not a serious person" or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.

<i>Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer</i>

Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer is the partial autobiography of the British novelist Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1954. Slide Rule concentrates on Nevil Shute's work in aviation, ending in 1938 when he left the industry.

Fokker D.XVII, was a 1930s Dutch sesquiplane developed by Fokker. It was the last fabric-covered biplane fighter they developed in a lineage that extended back to the First World War Fokker D.VII.

Ruined City is a 1938 novel by Nevil Shute, published by Cassell in the UK. In the US, the book was published by William Morrow under the title Kindling.

Sherburn-in-Elmet Airfield is located 1.5 nautical miles east of Sherburn in Elmet village and 5.5 NM west of Selby, North Yorkshire, England.

The Airspeed AS.6 Envoy was a twin-engined light transport aircraft designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Airspeed Ltd.

The Airspeed AS.5 Courier was a British six-seat single-engined light aircraft that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Airspeed Limited at Portsmouth. It has the distinction of being the first British aircraft fitted with a retractable undercarriage to go into quantity production.

Pterodactyl was the name given to a series of experimental tailless aircraft designs developed by G. T. R. Hill in the 1920s and early 1930s. Named after the genus Pterodactylus, a well-known type of Pterosaur commonly known as the pterodactyl, all but the first were produced by Westland Aircraft Ltd after Hill joined them.

The Airspeed AS.30 Queen Wasp was a British pilotless target aircraft built by Airspeed Limited at Portsmouth during the Second World War. Although intended for both Royal Air Force and Royal Navy use, the aircraft never went into series production.

Marazan is the first published novel by the British author Nevil Shute. It was originally published in 1926 by Cassell & Co, then republished in 1951 by William Heinemann. The events of the novel occur, in part, around the Isles of Scilly.

The Armstrong Whitworth Awana was a British prototype troop-transport aircraft built to meet a 1920 Air Ministry requirement.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hafner Rotabuggy</span> Type of aircraft

The Hafner Rotabuggy was a British experimental aircraft that was essentially a Willys MB combined with a rotor kite, developed with the intention of producing a way of air-dropping off-road vehicles.

Captain Thomas Neville Stack CVO, AFC was a 1920s test pilot, air racer and aviation pioneer. He served in both the First and Second World Wars and in all three services. His son Neville Stack, born in 1919, became an Air Chief-Marshal in the Royal Air Force.

The Airspeed AS.1 Tern was a 1930s British glider aircraft, the first aircraft built by Airspeed Limited at York and one of the earliest British-designed gliders.

Captain Maxwell Hutcheon Findlay was a Scottish World War I flying ace credited with 14 aerial victories. He remained in the RAF postwar for several years before going on to a civilian aviation career that ended with his death in the Johannesburg Air Race of 1936.

The Saunders Helicogyre was a 1920s experimental helicopter designed by Vittorio Isacco and built by S.E. Saunders Limited for the British Air Ministry.

The Blackburn F3 was a British single-engined fighter aircraft produced in response to Air Ministry Specification F.7/30.

The Avro 613 was a 1920s-proposed British design by Avro to meet an Air Ministry requirement for a twin-engined night bomber. A prototype was ordered but it was not built.

References

Notes

↑ "Airspeed Type Designations". Flight : 228. 23 February 1951. Archived from the original on 13 February 2017.
↑ Meekcoms 1994, p. 218
↑ Norway, Neville Shute (1954). Slide Rule . London: William Heinemann. pp. 233, 234.
↑ The British Aircraft Specification File" by KJ Meekcoms & EB Morgan, Air-Britain, 1994, p.217

Bibliography

Meekcoms, K J; Morgan, E B (1994). The British Aircraft Specification File. Tonbridge, Kent, England: Air-Britain. ISBN 0 85130 220 3.
Norway, Neville Shute (1954). Slide Rule . London: William Heinemann.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[Flight1951-1] "Airspeed Type Designations". Flight : 228. 23 February 1951. Archived from the original on 13 February 2017.

[2] Meekcoms 1994, p. 218

[3] Norway, Neville Shute (1954). Slide Rule . London: William Heinemann. pp. 233, 234.

[4] The British Aircraft Specification File" by KJ Meekcoms & EB Morgan, Air-Britain, 1994, p.217

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

v t e Airspeed aircraft
Manufacturer designations	AS.1 AS.2 AS.3 AS.4 AS.5 AS.6 AS.7 AS.8 AS.9 AS.10 AS.11 AS.12 AS.14 AS.15 AS.16 AS.17 AS.18 AS.19 AS.20 AS.21 AS.22 AS.23 AS.24 AS.26 AS.27 AS.28 AS.29 AS.30 AS.31 AS.32 AS.33 AS.34 AS.35 AS.36 AS.37 AS.38 AS.39 AS.40, AS.41, AS.42, AS.43 AS.44 AS.45 AS.46 AS.47 AS.48 AS.49 AS.50 AS.51, AS.52, AS.53 AS.54 AS.55 AS.56 AS.57 AS.58 AS.59 AS.60 AS.61 AS.62 AS.63 AS.64 AS.65 AS.66, AS.67, AS.68, AS.69
Airliners	Ambassador Consul Courier Envoy Ferry
Maritime patrol	Fleet Shadower
Racers	Viceroy
Sailplanes	Tern
Target drones	Queen Wasp
Trainers	Cambridge Oxford
Transport gliders	Horsa