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Bristol Type 91 Brownie

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Produced Variants

Type 91 Brownie Mk.I
 		 Two seat light sports aircraft built for the 1924 Lympne light aircraft trials. Steel tube fuselage with various types of wing. One 32 h.p. Bristol Cherub I powerplant.
Type 91A Brownie Mk.I Type 91 Brownie Mk.I fitted with a steel wing, larger fuel tank and 36 h.p. Bristol Cherub III powerplant.
Type 91B Brownie Mk.II Type 91A Brownie Mk.I with fuselage upper decking modifications, horn balanced rudder and revised undercarriage.


Projected Variants

Type 98 Brownie Mk.III All wood single seat racing version. One 36 h.p. Bristol Cherub III powerplant.


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C/n Initial Registration Type Notes
 3 aircraft built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Filton, Bristol, Somerset. First flew August 1924.
 6526  G-EBJK  Type 91  Fitted with 16ft wooden wings. Retained by Bristol.
 6527  G-EBJL    Fitted with 17ft metal wings. Later converted to a single seater. To Bristol & Wessex Aeroplane Club, September 1927.
 6528  G-EBJM    Initially flown as a single seater for the 1924 Grosvenor Cup Race.   Later fitted with 14ft metal wings
 1 aircraft modified by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Filton, Bristol, Somerset, in November 1925
 6526  G-EBJK  Type 91A  Retained by Bristol.
 1 aircraft modified by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Filton, Bristol, Somerset, in May 1926
 6526  G-EBJK  Type 91B  Entered for the 1926 Daily Mail Trials for light aeroplanes. Became F.S.Barnwell's private aeroplane in 1927.
Total Production (New Built)   3
Total Conversions   (2)



Production Summary

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All Aircraft By Type
Type Built New Conv. Canc'd Total
 Type 91 Brownie Mk.I 3     3
 Type 91A Brownie Mk.I   (1)   1
 Type 91B Brownie Mk.II   (1)   1
  3 (2) 0  

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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