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Airspeed Production
For a description of the format and data included
in Production Tables, see here.
Low Volume Production This
page covers Airspeed aircraft with low production volumes and/or registration/serial allocations. For higher volume production,
see the individual type production list. | AS.1 Tern | Single seat
wood-and-fabric cantilever monoplane sailplane. | | AS.4 Ferry | 10 pax biplane light airliner,
designed to meet a requirement for a pleasure flying airliner from Sir Alan Cobham. Two 120 h.p. | | |
de Havilland Gipsy II and one 120 h.p. de Havilland Gipsy III powerplants. |
| AS.8 Viceroy | Envoy derivative for the England
to Australia MacRobertson Trophy Race. Two 290 h.p.Armstrong-Siddeley Cheetah VI | | | supercharged powerplants. | | AS.27 | Initially designed as a slow
speed single seat coastal patrol and general purpose aircraft featuring a biplane 'Irving' wing | | |
arrangement. One 225 h.p. Wolseley Aries or 250 h.p. Wolseley Scorpio
powerplant. Redesigned as a 'Special defence' | | | single seat high wing cabin monoplane to Specification 38/35. One 350 h.p.Armstrong-Siddeley Cheetah X powerplant. |
| AS.39 Fleet Shadower | Three crew high wing long range
fleet spotter to Specification S.23/37 to meet the requirements of OR.52. Four 140 h.p. | | |
Pobjoy Niagara V powerplants. | | AS.45 Cambridge | 2 seat advanced trainer to
Specification T.4/39 to meet the requirements of OR.68. One 730 h.p. Bristol Mercury VIII | | |
powerplant. | | AS.49 | Single seat intermediate fighter
trainer to Specification T.24/40 to meet the requirements of OR.97. | | | One 295 h.p. de Havilland Gipsy Six IIIS or 250 h.p. de Havilland Gipsy Six IV powerplant. | | AS.60 Ayreshire C.1 | Medium range military transport
variant of the Ambassador to Specification C.13/45 to meet the requirements of OR.165. | | |
Two 2000 h.p. Bristol Centaurus 130 powerplants. |
C/n | Initial Registration | Notes |
| 2
aircraft built by Airspeed Ltd., York. First flew August 1931. |
| 1 | BGA0190 | Initially retained by Airspeed. To
Graham Andrew Little, Alan Herbert Reffell & Dr. Alan Fleming McGlashan, Southdown G.C., May 1933. |
| 2 | | To John Noble, Dunstable, incomplete, in 1936. Completed
by Dart Aircraft, Dunstable, in 1937. To Fred Gardiner, Dunstable. | | 3 | | Not completed | Total
Production 2 | Total Production (Not
Completed) 1 |
C/n | Initial Registration | Notes | | 4 aircraft built by Airspeed Ltd., Portsmouth,
between April 1932 and March 1933. | | 4 | G-ABSI | To
Sir Alan Cobham, later National Aviation Day Ltd, Ford, named "Youth of Britain II. Impressed into RAF service as
AV968 under File No. 50801/39. | | 5 | G-ABSJ | To
Sir Alan Cobham, later National Aviation Day Ltd, Ford, named "Youth of Britain III.To Himalaya Air Transport and
Survey Company Limited in 1934 as VT-AFO. | | 6 | G-ACBT |
To Midland & Scottish Air Ferries Ltd. | | 9 | G-ACFB | To Midland &
Scottish Air Ferries Ltd. Impressed into RAF service as DJ715 under File No. 50801/39. | Total Production 4 |
C/n | Initial Registration | Notes | | 1 aircraft built by Airspeed Ltd., Portsmouth.
First flew September 1934. | | 18 | G-ACMU | To Thomas Neville Stack, London, & Sydney Lewis Turner, Croydon. Flown by Stack & Turner in MacRobertson Race. To Spanish Republicans, later named | | | | 'Arturo Gonzalez Gil'. |
Total
Production 1 |
Serial Range | C/n | Batch Qty | Conv. | Canc'd | Notes |
| 2 aircraft ordered from Airspeed Ltd., Portsmouth, to contract 486768/36. Cancelled. |
| K8846 - K8847 | | | | 2 | | | Total Production | | | 2 | |
Serial Range | C/n | Batch Qty | Conv. | Canc'd | Notes |
| 2
aircraft ordered from Airspeed Ltd., Portsmouth, to contract 7504047/38. First flew October 1940. |
| N1323, N1326 |
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2 |
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N1326
not completed | | Total Production | 2
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Serial Range | C/n | Batch Qty | Conv. | Canc'd | Notes |
| 2
aircraft ordered from Airspeed Ltd., Portsmouth, to contract B.32277/39. First flew February, 1941 |
| T2449, T2453 |
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2 |
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| Total
Production | 2 | | | |
Serial Range | C/n | Batch Qty | Conv. | Canc'd | Notes |
| 1
aircraft ordered from Airspeed Ltd., Hatfield (1) , to contract B.156034/40. Cancelled. |
| BH727 (BS750) |
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| | 1 |
See
note 2 | | 50 aircraft ordered from Airspeed
Ltd., Hatfild (1) , to contract Acft/67. Cancelled. |
| BS827 - BS848 | |
| | 22 |
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| BS863 -
BS890 | | | |
28 | | | Total Production | | | 51 | |
Serial Range | C/n | Batch Qty | Conv. | Canc'd | Notes |
| 30
aircraft ordered from Airspeed Ltd., Christcurch, to contract Acft/5958. Cancelled. | | VP219 - VP248 |
|
| | 30 |
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| 10 aircraft ordered from Airspeed Ltd., Christchurch,
to contract 6/Acft/783. Cancelled | | VS227 - VS236 | | |
| 10 | See
note 3 | | Total Production | | | 40 | |
Notes
- The Airspeed design team had been relocated to the de Havilland design
office, Hatfield.
- Serial BH727 was originally incorrectly allocated to the non-existant de Havilland
submission to T.24/40. The allocation should have been to Airspeed and serial BS750 was subsequently allocated for their use.
The design reached mock up status but was destroyed in an air raid.
- The contracts ledger gives Contract
6/Acft/783/CB.10 to Vickers-Armstrongs (Supermarine) Ltd for 10 Airspeed Ayreshire C.1s, but this contract number actually
covered an order from CB.7 for Mosquito T.3s and NF.38s [3]
Production References Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931, H.A. Taylor (Putnam,
1970) Impressments Logs, Peter W. Moss (Air Britain Publications, 1962-66) Air Britain Archive, 2003/3 (Air-Britain Publications) Air Britain
RAF Aircraft Register Series, Various Volumes (Air-Britain Publications)
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Revision History Page Top
Revised at Version 1.4.0 - Improved type description.
- Added
user details for A.S.1 Tern, A.S.4 Ferry and A.S.8 Viceroy
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