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Bristol Types 62, 75 and Type 79 Brandon

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Produced Variants

Type 62 Commercial Biplane Nine passenger (plus pilot) biplane airliner. One 450 h.p. Napier Lion powerplant.
Type 75 Commercial Biplane As Type 62 but fitted with a 435 h.p. Bristol Jupiter IV powerplant.
Type 75A Express Freight Carrier Type 75 converted to a freighter capable of carrying 1800 lb of cargo.
Type 79 Brandon
 		 Ambulance derivative of the Type 75 to Specification 32/22, fitted with wings of greater chord. Accommodation for three stretchers and an attendant or two stretchers and four sitting patients. One 435 h.p. Bristol Jupiter IV powerplant.


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Type 62
Type 75
Type 79 Brandon

C/n Initial Registration Notes
 1 aircraft built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Filton, Bristol, Somerset. First flew June 1921.
 6124  G-EAWY  To the Air Council, then to Instone Air Line. Converted late 1921 to the prototype Type 75.
Total Production   1

C/n Initial Registration Notes
 2 aircraft built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Filton, Bristol, Somerset, but only one completed. First flew July 1922.
 6145  G-EBEV  To Instone Air Line
 6147    Not completed; sold for spares.
 1 aircraft converted by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Filton, Bristol, Somerset, in (June?) 1924.
 (6145)  G-EBEV   Type 75 converted into Type 75A on Instone's merger into Imperial Airways Ltd..
Total Production (Built)   1
Total Production (Converted)   (1)
Total Production (Not Completed)   1



Type 79 Brandon

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Serial Range C/n Batch Qty Conv. Canc'd Notes
 1 aircraft ordered from the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Filton, Bristol, Somerset, to contract 377434/22. Firsst flew march 1924.
 J6997  6146  1      
  Total Production 1      



Production Summary

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All Aircraft By Type
Type Built New Conv. Canc'd Total
 Type 62 10-Seater 1     1
 Type 75 10-Seater 1 (1) 1 3
 Type 75A Express Freight Carrier   (1)   1
 Type 79 Brandon 1     1
  3 (2) 1  

Production References
  1. Bristol Aircraft Since 1910, C.H. Barnes (Putnam, 1964)
  2. British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1928, Peter W. Moss (Air Britain Publications, 1969)

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