S.P.
(Special Purpose) - strengthened development the G.P. with larger area ailerons, also fitted to the lower mainplanes.
Two 190 h.p. Rolls-Royce powerplants.
R.T.1 Kangaroo
Three-crew, four-bay biplane anti-submarine patrol bomber, developed
from the G P. seaplane. Two 250 h.p. Rolls-Royce Falcon II (first four aircraft) or 270 h.p. Falcon III powerplants.
24
aircraft ordered from The Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co. Ltd, Leeds,
Yorkshire, to contract AS.7469. 20 Delivered between April and July 1918,
remainder cancelled.
B8837 - B8840
4
3 eventually completed as civil dual control
trainers.
B9970 - B9989
20
Originally ordered as N1720 - N1739
Total Production
20
Aircraft Converted or Built As Civil
C/n
Initial Registration
Notes
3 aircraft
converted by Grahame-White Aviation Co Ltd, Hendon. Delivered from Seaton
Carew to Hendon 11 May 1919.
G-EADE
Ex B9981. Registration not used and
cancelled in July 1919, owing to damage received by B9981 at Hendon.
G-EADF
Ex B9982. Crashed taking off from Hendon on
Saturday, 31.5.19 (before registration).
G-EADG
Ex B9985. Used by Grahame-White Aviation for
joy-riding at Hendon.
4 aircraft
converted by The Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co. Ltd, Leeds, Yorkshire for
the North Sea Aerial Navigation Co Ltd.
G-EAIT
Ex B9978; 1925 converted to dual trainer.
G-EAIU
Ex B9973; 1924 converted to the prototype
dual trainer 'Bongo'.
G-EAKQ
Ex B9972; July 1921 to the Peruvian Centro
Militar (Army Flying Service).
G-EAMJ
Ex B9977; 1924 converted to dual trainer
'Felix the Cat'.
1 aircraft
converted by The Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co. Ltd, Leeds, Yorkshire for
the Australia Flight 24 October 1919.
G-EAOW
Ex B9970. Retained by Blackburn Aeroplane
& Motor Co. Ltd.
3 aircraft
completed as dual control trainers from unfinished airframes for the North
Sea Aerial and General Transport Co Ltd. Delivered between January and
October 1926.
The aircraft were built at the Olympia
Works, Leeds, but, from the S.P. in 1916, though still built in Leeds, were erected and flown from Brough Aerodrome, East
Yorkshire.
Production References
Blackburn Aircraft
Since 1909, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1968 and 1989)
British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1928, Peter W. Moss
(Air Britain Publications, 1969)