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Avro 504 (Foreign Derivatives)

For description of Type 504 Foreign Derivatives see Production Summary

For a description of the format and data included in Production Tables, see here.


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Japanese Built Aircraft
Russian (Soviet) Built Aircraft



Japanese Built Aircraft

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Yokosuka K2Y Delivered As Military
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
 6 aircraft built by Yokosuka for the Japanese Naval Air Service between 1929 and 1930.
     6      
 66 aircraft built by Kawanishi for the Japanese Naval Air Service between 1930 and 1932.
     66      
 114 aircraft built by Watanabe for the Japanese Naval Air Service between 1931 and 1937.
     114      
 45 aircraft built by Mitsubishi for the Japanese Naval Air Service in 1934
     45      
 126 aircraft built by Nippi for the Japanese Naval Air Service between 1939 and 1940.
     126      
 3 aircraft built by Showa for the Japanese Naval Air Service between 1938 and 1939.
     3      
 
Total Production
360
 
 
 

Yokosuka K2Y For Export Delivered As Military
Serial Range
C/n
Qty
Notes
Manchuria
  An unknown number of aircraft were exported to the Air Corps of the Manchurian National Military Air Force.
     ??  
 
Total 
(??)
 

Yokosuka K2Y Converted to Civil
C/n
Initial
Registration
Notes
 2  J-BADQ  Watanabe built. To Yamanashi Veteran Soldiers Aero Res.Soc.
 21  J-BANP  Kawanishi built. To Nihon Student Air League Marine Section.
 17  J-BAPD  Kawanishi built. To Nihon Student Air League Marine Section.
 13  J-BAPH  Kawanishi built. To Nihon Student Air League.
 25  J-BAPP  Kawanishi built. To Student Marine Flying Club.
   J-BAPY  To Navy Reserve wing.
   J-BAPZ  To Navy Reserve wing.
 9  J-BAQP  Kawanishi built. To Nihon Student Air League Marine Section.
 11  J-BARP  Kawanishi built. To Nihon Student Air League Marine Section.
   J-BBPU  To Navy Reserve Corp.
   J-BCDV  To Hokkai Times.
   J-BCPB  To Navy Reserve Corp., Sapporo branch.
   J-BCPH  To Navy Reserve Corp., Sapporo branch.
   J-BCPR  To Navy Reserve Corp., Sapporo branch.
   J-BCPS  To Navy Reserve Corp., Sapporo branch.
   J-BCPU  To Navy Reserve Corp., Sapporo branch.
   J-BCPV  To Navy Reserve Corp., Sapporo branch.
 16  J-BFUG  Watanabe built. To M. lnoue.
 6  J-BIAL  Yokosuka built. To F. Mihara (Nagoya Flying School).
Total Conversions   (19)


Russian (Soviet) Built Aircraft

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Polikarpov U-1 Delivered As Military (Locally referred to as 'Avrushka') See Note 2
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
 223 aircraft ordered from GAZ No.5 in Moscow (see note 5) for the RKKVF (see note 6). Delivered from August 1923 to 1925.
    165-371  207      
         16  
 457 aircraft ordered from GAZ No.3 in Leningrad (see note 5) for the RKKVF (see note 6). Delivered from August 1923 to 1925.
   1798, 1799  2      
   1803-1833  31      
   1836-1848  13      
   1912-1981  70      
   1992-2001  10      
   2012-2089  78      
   2151-2236  86      
   2312-2390  79      
     88      Probably from c/n range 2496-2670. See note 3.
 
Total Production
664
 
16
 

Polikarpov MU-1 Delivered As Military
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
 73 aircraft ordered from GAZ No. 3 in Leningrad (see note 5) for the RKKVF (see note 6). Delivered from August 1923 to 1925.
   1794-1797  4      
   1800-1805  6      
   1834, 1835  2      
   2002-2011  10      
   2237-2256  20      
   2391-2406  16      
     15      See note 3.
 
Total Production
73
 
 
 

Polikarpov U-1 For Export Delivered As Military
Serial Range
C/n
Qty
Notes
Iran
  3 aircraft exported to Iran in 1923, 5 aircraft exported to Iran in 1928, but see note 4.
     9  
China (Kuomintang)
  An unknown number exported to the Nationalist (Kuomintang - KMT) central air force, Nanking, 1925-6.
     ??  
 
Total 
(??)
 

Polikarpov U-1 - Known Russian Civil Registered
C/n
Initial
Registration
Notes
 339  CCCP-110  Originally registered ДЛ-16 (DL-16) in August 1928, changed to CCCP-110 in 1929. 
     To Dobrolet - Российское общество Добровольного воздушного флота - Добролёт (The Russian Society of Voluntary Air Fleet)
   CCCP-195  To Dobrolet - Российское общество Добровольного воздушного флота - Добролёт (The Russian Society of Voluntary Air Fleet)
 353  CCCP-312  To Osoaviakhim School, Moscow.
 2161  CCCP-313  To Osoaviakhim School, Moscow.
Total Conversions   (4)



Notes
  1. Known serials: 415, 451, 457, 463, 469, 470, 510, 601.
     
  2. In 1923, the Polikarpov Department of Landplane Construction (OSS) was established at GAZ-l, its first design, the U-1, being produced the following year. The U-l was a reworked copy of a Avro 504K that had been forced to land in northern Russia, following which it was taken to GAZ-l where it was dismantled and analysed for Soviet production by Sergey llyushin.[3]
     
  3. Unknown c/ns to give the final totals as quoted by Andersson [2].
     
  4. Andersson [4] gives 2 or three delivered in 1923, 5 in 1928 but a total of 9 overall.
     
  5. State Aircraft Plant (Gossudarstvenny awiazionny Zavod - Государственный авиационный завод), abbreviated to GAZ.
     
  6. Workers and Peasants Red Military Air Fleet (Raboche-Krest'yanskaya Krasnayy Vozdushnyy Flot - Рабоче-Крестьянской Красной Армии - Воздушный Флот), abbreviated to RKKVF.

Production References
  1. Japanese Aircraft 1910-1941, Robert Mikesh & Shorzoe Abe (Putnam, 1990)
  2. Soviet Aircraft and Aviation, Lennart Andersson (Putnam, 1994)
  3. Soviet Aircraft Industry, Peter G Dancey (Fonthill Media, 2015)
  4. Civil and Military Aviation in Iran 1924-1949, Part 1, Lennart Andersson at http://www.artiklar.z-bok.se/iran-1.html
  5. Insignia No.11 (Blue Rider Publishing)
  6. Japanese Civil Register 1919-1945, Air Britain Archive 2001/1 through 2003/3 (Air-Britain Publications)
  7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/index.html

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