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Blackburn B.20 and B.40

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Produced Variants

B.20
 		 Six-seat experimental monoplane retractable-hull flying boat to Specification R.1/36 to meet the requirements of OR.32. Two 1,720 h.p. Rolls-Royce Vulture powerplants.
B.40 Proposed improved version of the Type 20 with Bristol Centaurus powerplants.

Production List  

B.20

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Serial Range C/n Batch Qty Conv. Canc'd Notes
 1 aircraft ordered from The Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co. Ltd, Brough, Yorkshire, to contract 498571/36, and built at Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire. First flew March 1940.
 V8914  CL/139/128  1      
  Total Production 1      

Serial Range C/n Batch Qty Conv. Canc'd Notes
 2 aircraft ordered from The Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co. Ltd, Brough, Yorkshire, to contract Acft/1474. Cancelled.
 ES966, ES979        2  
  Total Production     2  



Production Summary

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All Aircraft By Type
Type Built New Conv. Canc'd Total
 B.20 1     1
 B.40     2 2
  1 0 2  

Production References
  1. Blackburn Aircraft Since 1909, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1989)
  2. British Experimental Combat Aircraft of World War II, Tony Buttler, (Hikoki Publications, 1912)

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