3883 x 3106 px | 32,9 x 26,3 cm | 12,9 x 10,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2. August 2015
Ort:
Old Warden airfield, Bedfordshire, UK
Weitere Informationen:
The Avro Anson was designed in 1933 as the Avro 652. Only two civil 652s, which carried four passengers and a crew of two, were built as, while the aeroplane was still in the design stage, the Air Ministry invited tenders for a coastal patrol landplane to a very similar specification. Avro beat the fierce competition and, with various modifications to meet Service requirements, the first 652A, as the military version was known, flew in December 1935 and was given the Service name Anson Mk.I. This was the prototype of nearly 1, 000 aircraft delivered to the RAF by the outbreak of WW2 and which fulfilled many roles from bomber through air sea rescue to ambulance: it was, incidentally, the first aircraft in RAF service with retractable undercarriage. The Anson continued in production throughout the War and went through many Marks and configurations in military service with various nations until the first major redesign in 1944. Prominent changes were the raising of the cabin roof to give more headroom and hydraulic operation of the undercarriage. Post-war an Anson Mk.12 was fitted with nine seats and five oval windows a side to meet the Brabazon XIX feeder liner specification in a version known as the Avro 652A Nineteen. A military variant was ordered by the RAF as the C.Mk.19.
