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Avro Type E, 500 and 502 (Es)

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Produced Variants

Type E Two-seat two bay tractor biplane. One 60 h.p. ENV Type F powerplant.
Type 500 Improved Type E with 50 h.p. Gnome powerplant.
Type Es / Type 502 Single seat derivative of the Type 500.

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Type E

 
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
 1 aircraft  built by A.V. Roe & Co., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester, and assembled at Brooklands. First flew March 1912.
 none    1      June 1912 used as a flying testbed for the 60 h.p. ABC powerplant.
 
Total Production
1
 
 
 


Type 500

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Aircraft Delivered as Military
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
 3 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester to WO Contract May 1912. Delivered to Farnborough between May and July, 1912.
 404 - 406    3      
 1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester for Portugal. Delivered October 1912.
 none    1      Named 'Republica'
 4 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester to WO Contract December 1912. Delivered to CFS Upavon between January and April 1913.
 430, 432, 433, 448    4      
 1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester to Admiralty contract C.P.32188/13. Delivered March, 1913.
 41    1      
 1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Miles Platting, Manchester to contract Admiralty C.P.330057/14. Delivered February, 1914.
 150    1      
 
Total Production
10
 
 
 

Aircraft Delivered as Civil
C/n
Initial Registration
Notes
 1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester, for Cyril Frederick Lan-Davis in December 1912.
 none  none  Awaiting a more powerful engine when impressed into RFC as 939.
 1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Miles Platting, Manchester, for John Laurence Hall in January 1914.
 none  none  Impressed into RNAS as 491.
Total Production   2


Type 502 (Es)

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Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
 5 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester to WO Contract January 1913. Delivered between April and June 1913.
 285, 288 - 291    5      
 
Total Production
5
 
 
 



Production Summary

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All Aircraft By Type
Type Built New Conv. Canc'd Total
 Type E 1     1
 Type 500 12     12
 Type 502 5     5
  18 0 0  


Production References
  1. Avro Aircraft Since 1908, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1965 & 1990)
  2. British Aeroplanes 1914-18, J.M. Bruce (Putnam, 1957)
  3. British Aircraft Before The Great War, Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)

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