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Avro 504L
For a description of the format and data included in
Production Tables, see here.
Serial Range | C/n | Qty | Notes | Chile | 3 aircraft supplied to the Chilean Naval Air Service (Servicio de Aviación
Naval de Chile) as compensation for the Royal Navy taking over 2 Chilean warships. Delivered 1919. |
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(3) |
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Japan |
10 aircraft supplied to the Japanese Naval Air Service. Delivered 1921. | | | | (10) |
See
Note 2. | USSR | 1 aircraft supplied to the RKKVF (Raboche-Krestjanskaya Krasny Aviatsionnij
Flot, Red Air Fleet of Workers and Farmers) in 1922. |
| | 5041 | (1) | Unloaded
from the SS Miranda at Leningrad in May 1922. | Total Production
(14) |
| Imperial Gifts to Empire Air Forces. Delivered 1920 | | For further details, see Type 504K Imperial Gifts Table | Serial or Registration |
Australia Total (2) |
| A3-46 - A3-47 | Canada Total
(5) | | G-CYAX (later RCAF 14), G-CYCY (later RCAF 13), G-CYDA,
G-CYEE, G-CYEG | New Zealand Total (3) | | G-NZAJ, G-NZAA, G-NZAB |
Total (10) |
C/n | Initial
Registration | Notes | | 6 aircraft built by The Eastbourne Aviation Co. Ltd.,
Eastbourne, Hamble, Hants in 1919/20, and used for joy-riding from the South Coast. | | E.1 | K-144/G-EAFB |
| | E.2 |
G-EAJH |
| | E.3 |
G-EALO |
| | E.4 |
G-EANS |
| | E.5 |
G-EASD |
To
George Spaak, Bergvik, Sweden March 1921 as S-AAP, later S-AHAA/SE-HAA. Restored to UK register 1992. |
| E.6 | G-EASE |
Sold
to an overseas customer with export C. of A. dated 10 September 1920. | | 6 aircraft built by A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Hamble, Hants in 1919. |
| ATC.12 | K-145/G-EAFF |
Operated
by the Avro Transport Co for joyriding activities along South Coast. To Belgium July 1921. | | ATC.13 | K-146/G-EAFG |
Registration
G-EAFG not used: wrecked off Alderney in fog on 5.10.19 still as K-146. | | ATC.15 | G-EALH | Operated
by the Avro Transport Co for joyriding activities along South Coast. | | ATC.16 | G-EAJX | Operated
by the Avro Transport Co for joyriding activities along South Coast. | | ATC.17 | G-EALI | Operated
by the Avro Transport Co for joyriding activities along South Coast. | | ATC.18 | G-EANB | To Kungl.Vattenfallsstyrelsen,
Sweden, via A.D.C. Ltd in July 1921 as S-IAA named 'Masen'. Later S-ABAA 1 Dec 1922. | Total Production (12) |
Initial
Registration | Original
Military Serial | Notes | | K-106/G-EAAO | C4329 | Converted by A.V.
Roe. Clerget powered prototype, c/n A.T.C.4. | | G-EADJ | H2581 | Converted
by A.V. Roe. | | G-EADK |
H2582 | Converted by A.V. Roe. |
| G-EAGU | H2585 | Converted by A.V. Roe. | | G-EAKA | H2590 |
Converted
by A.V. Roe. | | G-EALB |
H2589 | Converted by A.V. Roe. |
Total Production (6) |
Serial
Range | C/n | Batch Qty | Conv. | Canc'd | Notes | Japan | 30 aircraft ordered from The Aichi Watch and Electric
Machinery Co. Ltd. (Aichi Tokei Denki Kabushiki Kaisha) for the Japanese Naval Air Service, deliveries beginning in 1922. |
| ??? - ??? |
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30 |
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See
note 3. | | Total Production | 30 | |
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Serial Range | C/n | Qty | Notes | Spain | 2 aircraft converted from 504K by the Spanish Royal Naval Air Service
(Aeronautica Naval) in Barcelona in 1921. | | M-NOAD - M-NOAE | | (2) | |
Total
Production (2) |
C/n | Initial
Registration | Original Military Serial | Notes | Japan | Total Production
(3) | | 2523 |
J-TOBG |
| To S. Anto. Said to have been UK-built, possibly by Avro at Hamble delivered
to the Japanese Navy in 1921. (150 h.p. Bentley B.R.1). |
| 3 | J-BARB | |
Aichi-built.
To Nihon Flying School. (120 h.p. Le Rhône). |
| 7 | J-BAZD | |
Aichi
built. To H. Saruta, Ghoshi. (120 h.p. Gasuden-Le Rhône). | Total Conversions (3) |
C/n | Initial
Registration | Original Military Serial | Notes |
Sweden | Total
Production (2) | | | S-IAB | H1911 | Sold via
Handley Page Ltd to Kungl.Vattenfallsstyrelsen, named 'Svalan'. Later S-AAAA 1 Dec 1922. | | | S-IAG |
H1912 |
Sold
via Handley Page Ltd to Kungl.Vattenfallsstyrelsen. |
Total Conversions
(2) |
Notes - Known locally as Type 504S, or officially Avro Seaplane Trainer.
- Supplied by the British Aviation Mission to Japan in September 1921. Mikesh & Abe [7] quote 30 aircraft, supplied
as 20 landplanes and 10 seaplanes. Colonel The Master Of Semphills' report on the Mission in Flight [13] gives the aircraft
supplied as Avro 504K with 110 h.p. Le Rhône and Avro 504L with 150 h.p. Bentley BR1.
Production References - Avro
Aircraft Since 1908, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1965 & 1990)
- Canadian Aircraft since 1909,
K.M. Molson & H.A. Taylor (Putnam, 1982)
- Eastbourne Aviation Company, A History of the, 1911-1924,
L.McMahon & M. Partridge (Eastbourne Local History Society, 2000)
- Australian 504s, Air Enthusiast 44
- Canadian
Military Aircraft Serial Numbers at http://www.ody.ca/~bwalker/index.htm
- The Complete Civil Register of New Zealand, Air Britain Archive, 1981/1 (Air-Britain Publications)
- Japanese Aircraft 1910-1941, Robert Mikesh & Shorzoe Abe (Putnam, 1990)
- Latin American Military
Aviation, John M. Andrade (Midland Counties Publications, 1982)
- Avro 504 in Australian and New Zealand service
at http://www.adf-serials.com.au/home.htm
- http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/index.html
- The British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1928, Compiled & Edited by Peter W. Moss (Air-Britain, 1969)
- British Isles Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-2011 (LAAS International, 2011)
- Flight 10 Apr 1924
- Aviation in Sweden at http://www.svfplhist.com/
- Soviet Aircraft and Aviation 1917-1941, Lennart Andersson (Putnam, 1994)
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