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British Aircraft Manufacturing Eagle

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Produced Variants
B.K.1 Eagle 1 Three-seat cabin monoplane with retractable undercarriage. One 130 h.p. de Havilland Gipsy Major powerplant.
B.K.1 Eagle 2 As Eagle 1 but with a modified structure featuring a larger rudder and deeper rear fuselage.


Production List

Eagle 1

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C/n Initial Registration Notes
 4 aircraft built by the British Klemm Company, Hanworth, Middlesex, between April and July 1934
 1  G-ACRG  To J. Fox
 2  G-ACPU  To E.L. Gander-Dower. Impressed as DR609 under contract H.546122/41
 25  G-ACTR  To J.N. Laurie, Gloucester, NSW as VH-USI December 1934.
 30  G-ACVU  To G. Shaw
Total Production   4




Eagle 2

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C/n Initial Registration Notes
 9 aircraft built by the British Klemm Company, Hanworth, Middlesex, between October 1934 and April 1935.
 105  CR-MAI  'Gaza IV'
 106  VH-USP  To Adastra Aerial Surveys Ltd, NSW, Australia
 107  G-ACZT  To ??
 108  EC-CBB  To Juan Ignacio Pombo Alonso-Pesquera, Spain; named 'Santander'
 109  VH-UTI  To P. Knapman, Exeter, NSW, Australia.
 110  G-ADEJ  Retained by British Klemm
 111  G-ADES  To Switzerland as CH-442.
 112  G-ADFB  To Katsutaro Ano, Japan as J-BOOB 'Seikai'.  
 113  VH-UTG  To Adastra Aerial Surveys Ltd, NSW, Australia
 28 aircraft built by the British Aircraft Manufacturing Company, Hanworth, between May 1935 and July 1938.
 114  EC-CBC  To LAPE, Spain.
 115  EC-CBB  Replacement airframe for damaged   c/n 108
 116  G-ADYY  To H.Holiday
 117  YR-ADA  To Ing. N.Marinesco, Rumania.
 118  G-ADID  To C.E. Gardener, May 1938. Impressed as HM500.
 119  G-ADJS  to Villiers Hay Development Co. Ltd. Impressed as DR610 under contract H.546122/41.
 120    See Note 1
 121  G-ADGJ  To Bhavnagar State, India as VT-AHT
 122  G-ADJO  To Maj. J.C. Hargreaves, November 1936.
 123  VP-KBS  To George Blowers, Nairobi, Kenya.
 124  G-ADPN  To J.D. Armour
 125  G-ADPO  To Air Hire Ltd
 126  G-AEER  To J.P. Wakefield
 127  G-AEGO  To R. Branson. Impressed as HM506
 128  VH-UUY  To Adastra Aerial Surveys Ltd, NSW, Australia
 129  VR-SAP  To Penang FC.
 130  G-ADVT  To Air Commerce Ltd. Impressed as DP847.
 131  G-AEKI  To J.W. Adamson. Impressed as ES948 under contract H.546122/41
 132  G-AENE  To L.T. Lillingston, September 1936.
 133  G-AEFZ  To Sir Alasdair W. Mac Robert. Impressed as ES944 under contract H.546122/41
 134  CF-AYH  To G.V. Priestley, Toronto.
 135  ???  To Maharajah of Cochin.
 136  F-APDG  To Pierre Wolf, Constantine, Algeria.
 137  G-AERB  To Sir D.H. Caine and T.H. Clayton, April 1938. To France as F-ARRB, May 1938.
 138  G-AFAX  To H.O. Hamilton. Fitted with a fixed undercarriage.
 139  CF-BBF  To A Graydon
 140  VP-KCI  To W.G.D.H. Nichols, Mombasa, Kenya. Impressed as K9.
 141  G-AFIC  To Rai Bajrang Bahadur Singh, Bhadri Raj, District Partabgarh, Oudh as VT-AKO. Impressed as MA945.
 142  G-AFKH  To L. Fontes.
 143  G-AFIS  To HH The Nawab of Sachin, Dumas, Sachin State as VT-AKP. Impressed in India as AW183.
Total Production   37




Production Summary

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All Aircraft By Mark
Type Built New Conv. Canc'd Total
 B.K.1 Eagle 1 4     4
 B.K.1 Eagle 2 37     37
  41 0 0  

Notes
  1. Apparently c/n 120 was not used to emphasize an airframe change at c/n 121; cabin framing and glazing was modified and the undercarriage retraction system was changed from cable to chain.

Production References
  1. Air Britain Archive, 2012/4 (Air-Britain Publications)
  2. British Isles Civil Aircraft Register 1919-2011 (LAAS International)
  3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/home.html

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