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Birmingham Guild Gypsy

Including Yorkshire Sailplanes YS-55 Consort and Swales SD3-15

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

Produced Variants

Birmingham Guild BG-100/12 Gypsy Single seat sailplane featuring foam core metal skined wing of 12m span.
Birmingham Guild BG-135 Gypsy Initial production version. As BG-100/12 but with an all metal wing with leading edge torque box and fabric covering aft.
Yorkshire Sailplanes YS-55 Consort As BG-135 with minor fuselage and controls changes.
Swales SD3-15 BG-135 re-engineered for simpler production and featuring a new 15m span wing.
Swales SD3-15V Original V-tailed SD3-15 redesignated upon the introduction of the SD3-15T.
Swales SD3-15T SD3-15 with a T-tail.


Production List 
Birmingham Guild BG-100/12 Gypsy

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C/n
BGA No.
Notes
 1 aircraft built by Birmingham Guild Ltd, Birmingham. First flew 7 April 1970.
 none  none  
Total Production   1


Birmingham Guild BG-135 Gypsy

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C/n
BGA No.
Notes
 4 aircraft built by Birmingham Guild Ltd, Birmingham. Built between 1972 and 1973.
 001  BGA1741  
 4  BGA1920  
 5  BGA1921  
 6  BGA1922  
Total Production   4


Yorkshire Sailplanes YS-55 Consort

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C/n
BGA No.
Notes
 10 aircraft built by Yorkshire Sailplanes, Ripon, Yorkshire. Built between 1973 and 1975. See note 1.
 04  BGA1813  
 05  BGA1890  
 06  BGA1815  
 07  BGA1891  
 08  BGA1812  
 09    Completed as Swales SD3-15V c/n 1
 10  BGA1893  
 11  BGA1894  
 12  BGA1895  
 13  BGA1896  
 14  BGA1814  
Total Production   10
Total Production (Not Completed)   1


Swales SD3-15

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C/n
BGA No.
Notes
 6 aircraft built by Swales Sailplanes, Thirsk, Yorkshire. Built between 1975 and 1979.
 1  BGA2020  SD3-15V
 02  BGA2072  SD3-15V
 ??  BGA2086  SD3-15T
 03  BGA2212  SD3-15T
 04  BGA2305  SD3-15T
 ??  ??  SD3-15T - unknown machine, but Hardy [1] gives 6 aircraft built.
Total Production   6



Production Summary

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All Aircraft By Type
Type Built New Conv. Canc'd Total
 Birmingham Guild BG-100/12 Gypsy 1     1
 Birmingham Guild BG-135 Gypsy 4     4
 Yorkshire Sailplanes YS-55 Consort 10   1 11
 Swales SD3-15V 2     2
 Swales SD3-15T 4     4
  21 0 1  



Notes
  1. Yorkshire Sailplanes c/ns 1 to 3 belonged to YS-53 Sovereigns.

Production References
  1. Gliders and Sailplanes of the World, Michael Hardy, (Ian Allen, 1982)
  2. British Gliders, P.H. Butler (Merseyside Aviation Society, 2nd Ed. 1975)

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