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Baynes Production

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Produced Variants

Scud I
 		 Single seat glider featuring a wooden cantilever parasol wing designed to fill a gap in performance between primary gliders and  true sailplanes.
Scud II Single seat high-performance sailplane development of the intermediate-level Scud I with a new, high aspect ratio wing.
Scud III All new single seat high-performance sailplane designed to be fitted with an auxiliary powerplant for assisted take off.
Auxiliary Designation of the Scud III when fitted with a 249 c.c Villiers motorcycle engine.
Cantilever Pou
 		 Mignet H.M.14 Pou-du-Ciel redesigned with lowered thrust line and raised, redesigned and re-mounted forward wing. 30 h.p. Carden-Ford powerplant.
Bee
 		 Two seat high wing pusher aircraft with a wing that rotated rather than folded for storage. Two 40 h.p. Carden-Ford S.P.1 powerplants.
Carrier Wing Flying scale model tailless glider design intented to convert tanks into temporary gliders.
High-Lift
 		 Experimental, flying test-bed for the system of slotted flaps invented by R.T. Youngman. The high lift wing was fitted to a much modified Percival Proctor fuselage. One  250 h.p. de Havilland Gipsy Queen 32 powerplant.


Production List 

Scud I

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C/n
Initial Registration
Notes
 1 aircraft built by Brant Aircraft Ltd., Croydon, Surrey. First flew at Totternhoe, Beds, on 11 January 1931.
     To Dr. Hamish Allan, Dunstable.
 8 aircraft built by Abbott-Baynes Sailplanes Ltd., Farnham, Surrey, between May 1931 and May 1937.
     To Dr. Hamish Allan, Dunstable; first flew May 1931.
     To Dr. Hamish Allan, Dunstable; first flew July 1931
     To the Evening World newspaper, Bristol; first flew April 1932.
     To the Evening World newspaper, Bristol: first flew May 1932
     To Guernsey Gliding Club; first flew February 1934.
     To C.H. Hollis, Guernsey; first flew February 1934.
     To the Midlands Gliding Club; first flew 1936.
   BGA300  To Edwin R. Wilson, Pwllheli.; first flew May 1937.
 3 amateur built aircraft.
     Built by Keith Carter in Jersey.
     Built in Australia by Harold Bradley, possibly in 1934.
     Built in Australia bby Arthur Baxter and Frank Reneham, Melbourne, possibly in 1934.
Total Production   12



Scud II

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C/n
Initial Registration
Notes
 3 aircraft built by Abbott-Baynes Sailplanes Ltd., Farnham, Surrey, between August 1933 and September 1934.
   BGA200  Prototype, first flew August 1933. To Geoffrey Mungo Buxton, later G-ALRZ.
   BGA193  To Ulster Gliding Club, first flew August 1933.
   BGA123  To Kit Nicholson & Philip Cooper, first flew September 1934; later G-ALKZ
 One kit built aircraft.
 215B (2)  BGA231  Kit begun by Eric Collins and David Dent, completed by Slingsby Saiplanes Ltd; first flew July 1935. Later G-ALOT.
Total Production   4



Scud III and Auxiliary

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C/n
Initial Registration
Notes
 2 aircraft built by Abbott-Baynes Aircraft Ltd., Farnham, Surrey, in 1935-36.
   BGA684  First flew as a Scud III in May 1935. To Sir John Carden; Converted and first flew as an Auxiliary on 8 August 1935. Crashed and rebuilt as a Scud III by
     Ron Clear between 1937 and 1941. Registered BGA.684 in January 1954.
 2  BGA283  Built as an Auxiliary in January 1936 for the 9th Duke of Grafton, but not delivered; converted and first flew as a Scud III in August 1936.
     To Llewellyn H. (Bill) Parker. To J. Clark as  G-ALJR in March 1949, but returned to BGA rgister by May.
Total Production, Scud III   2
Total Production, Auxiliary   (2)



Cantilever Pou

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C/n
Initial Registration
Notes
 4 aircraft built by Abbott-Baynes Aircraft Ltd., Farnham, Surrey, between April and July 1936 out of a total of 60 orders. Remainder cancelled
 CP.1  G-AEGD  To India as VT-AID, but see note 1.
 WB.1  G-AEIE  Retained by E.D. Abbott.
 CP.3  G-AEJC  Retained by E.D. Abbott.
 CP.4  G-AEJD  Retained by E.D. Abbott.
 CP.5  G-AEJE  Cancelled and serial reallocated.
 CP.6  G-AEJF  Cancelled and serial reallocated.
 CP.7  G-AEJG  Cancelled and serial reallocated.
Total Built   4
Total Cancelled   3


Bee

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C/n
Initial Registration
Notes
 1 aircraft built by Carden-Baynes Aircraft Ltd at Heston. One flight only on 3 April 1937.
 1  G-AEWC  Retained by Carden-Baynes Aircraft Ltd.
Total Production   1



Carrier Wing ("Bat")

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Military Serial
Civil Registration
C/n
Notes
 1 aircraft ordered from Alan Muntz & Co Ltd., Heston, Middlesex, to contract SB.25046 and built by Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd, Kirbymoorside. First flew August 1943.
 RA809  BGA569  SSK/MN/1  
Total Production   1



Youngman-Baynes High-Lift

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Military Serial
Civil Registration
C/n
Notes
 1 aircraft ordered from Alan Muntz & Co Ltd., Heston, Middlesex, to contract Acft/5414 and built by Heston Aircraft Ltd. First flew in February 1948.
 VT789  G-AMBL  none  Registered G-AMBL in May 1950.
Total Production   1



Production Summary

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All Aircraft By Type
Type Built New Conv. Canc'd Total
 Scud I 12     12
 Scud II 4     4
 Scud III 2     2
 Auxiliary   (2)   (2)
 Cantilever Pou 4   3 7
 Bee 1     1
 Carrier Wing 1     1
 High Lift   1     1
  25 (2) 3  


Notes
  1. From [5]: VT-ADM Heath Parasol was purchased in Calcutta by Mr Channing Pearce of Assam. He used the engine, wheels and instruments for a Pou he built from a spruce log & venesta plywood. It was 'almost complete' in mid-36, only the wings and rudder needed covering. Now the Pou VT-AID was regd 9.36 to owners in Assam with c/n CP.1 and as such has always been quoted as the Abbott-Baynes Cantilever Pou G-AEGD cld 1.37, but could the c/n equally stand for Channing Pearce? A very small photo reveals that his machine certainly wasn't a cantilever version, but it may never have been completed or registered.

Production References
  1. British Civil Aircraft Registers 1911-1999 (Air-Britain Publications, 1999)
  2. British Gliders and Sailplanes 1922-1970, Norman Ellison (Adam and Charles Black, 1970)
  3. http://www.bpg.flyer.co.uk/BGA.xls
  4. Sailplane and Glider, 16 and 23 January 1931.
  5. Air Britain Archive, 1998/1
  6. Air Britain Archive, 1998/3

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