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Bristol Type 167 Brabazon

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Produced Variants

Type 167 Brabazon I
 
 
 		 Large passenger transatlantic airliner to Specification 2/44 to meet the requirements of O.R.171. Designed for luxury travel, it featured a forward area with six compartments, each for six passengers and a seventh for just three; a midsection with 38 seats arranged around tables in groups of four with a pantry and galley; and a rear area with 23 seats in an aft-facing cinema with a cocktail bar and lounge. Eight 2,650 h.p. Bristol Centaurus powerplants driving contra-rotating propellers.
Type 167 Brabazon II Production version to Specification 2/46. Four 7,000 h.p. Bristol Coupled Proteus powerplants. 


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C/n Initial Registration Type Notes
  aircraft built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Filton, Bristol, Somerset. First flew September 1928.
 12759  G-AGPW  Brabazon I  Also alotted VX206
 1 aircraft ordered from the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, Filton, Bristol, Somerset, to contract Acft/4124. Not completed.
 12870  G-AIML  Brabazon I Mk.II  Also alotted VX343
Total Production   1
Total Production   (Not Completed)   1



Production Summary

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All Aircraft By Type
Type Built New Conv. Canc'd Total
 Type 167 Brabazon I 1     1
 Type 167 Brabazon II     1 1
  1 0 1  

Production References
  1. Bristol Aircraft Since 1910, C.H. Barnes (Putnam, 1964)

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