For a description of the format and data included
in Production Tables, see here.
Low Volume Production
This
page covers Blackburn aircraft with low production volumes and/or registration/serial allocations. For higher volume
production, see the individual type production list.
Two
seat 'hydrobiplane' for entry in the 1914 Seaplane Circuit of Britain. Projected Variant: 1914 Seaplane;
enlarged derivative of the Type L. 200 h.p. Gnome Monosoupape powerplant.
Two-seat, two-bay biplane anti-airship bomber with twin fuselages and central wing-bay. Two 100 h.p. Gnome Monosoupape
or 110 h.p. Clerget 9b (last aircraft only) powerplants.
Single-seat, three-bay biplane shipborne torpedo-bomber to meet A.D. Specification N.1(b) (later RAF Type XXII).
One 350 h.p. Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII powerplant.
Single seat interceptor fighter, Private Venture, meeting the requirements of Specifications F.9/26 and N.21/26,
but intended for export. (See note 3). One 446 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar VI powerplant.
Two seat two-seat biplane bomber. Its design was started to meet Specification 24/25 for a high-altitude bomber,
but was later modified to meet specification 23/25 for a day bomber, reconnaissance and torpedo aircraft. One 460 h.p. Bristol
Jupiter VIIIF powerplant.
Two-seat fighter carrier-based fleet spotter with interception capability, to meet the requirements of Specification
O.22/26. One 525 h.p. Rolls-Royce F.XIIMS powerplant
2 crew, 10 passenger, experimental civil passenger aircraft designed to compare biplane and monoplane configurations,
built to Air Ministry Specification 6/29. Two 400 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar IVC powerplants.
Single seat single-bay biplane day and night fighter to meet the requirements of Specifications F.7/30. One 695
h.p. Rolls-Royce Goshawk III powerplant.
3 aircraft
ordered from The Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co. Ltd, Leeds, Yorkshire, to
contract A.S.17278. Only one hull completed by November 1918. Cancelled.
1 aircraft
ordered from The Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co. Ltd, Brough, Yorkshire, to
contract 189223/32. First taxied 17 August 1934 but never flown.
2 aircraft
ordered from The Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co. Ltd, Brough, Yorkshire, to
contract Acft/2542. Cancelled.
MZ275, MZ277
2
Total Production
2
Notes
Blackburn
used a series of Works Order Numbers rather than Constructors Numbers to identify individual airframes, but referred to here
as c/n's for consistency.
From 1914, Blackburn aircraft were built at the Olympia Works, Leeds, but from
1916, though still built in Leeds, they were erected and flown from Brough Aerodrome, East Yorkshire. Between 1928 and 1932
all manufacture was transferred to Brough.
Blackburn intended a family of interceptor fighters under
the family name Blackcock, using a largely common airframe but fitted with either one 585 h.p. Bristol Mercury, 446 h.p. Armstrong
Siddeley Jaguar VI or 510 h.p. RollsRoyce Falcon X powerplant. Only the Jaguar powered version was built, named Turcock in
deference to the customer.
Production References
Blackburn Aircraft
Since 1909, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1968 and 1989)
Fleet Air Arm Aircraft, Units and Ships, 1920
to 1939, Ray Sturtivant with Dick Cronin (Air Britain Publications, 1998)
British Experimental Combat Aircraft
of World War II, Tony Buttler, (Hikoki Publications, 1912)
