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Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1
Aircraft & Exhibits, APR 1962-APR 1988, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1988/0098/A
The Argosy was a medium range transport, paratroop and supply aircraft. Powered by four Rolls-Royce Dart turbojet engines, and with a distinctive twin boom tailplane design, it became known as the “Whistling Wheelbarrow” in RAF service.
Handley Page Hampden TB Mk I
Aircraft & Exhibits, 1939-04 SEP 1942, In Storage, 1994/1340/A
An RAF crew were flying this Hampden, a torpedo bomber variant, to the Soviet Union to help protect Arctic convoys, when it was shot down by German fighters on 5 September 1942.
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer CC.2
Aircraft & Exhibits, JUN 1958-FEB 1969, London, Hangar Three/Four, 69/A/217
Known as the ‘Twin Pin’, the Twin Pioneer was a follow-up to the same company’s single-engined short take-off and landing (STOL) transport, the Pioneer, and like the latter required an area only 30m (99ft) by 275m (902ft) in which to operate. The Twin Pioneer was initially designed as a 16-passenger civil transport aircraft and first flew in June 1955. Following the success of the Pioneer, the RAF ordered 39 of the new type, the first examples entering service in October 1958 with No.78 Squadron in Aden, air-lifting troops and supplies in the Protectorate.
Hunting Percival Pembroke C1
Aircraft & Exhibits, JUN 1955-APR 1987, London, Hangar Three/Four, 1987/0277/A
Entering service in 1953, the Pembroke took over from the venerable Anson in the light transport and communications role. It was developed from the Prince civil transport having a longer wing to carry an increased all-up weight.
Short Belfast C.1
Aircraft & Exhibits, JAN 1967-OCT 1978, Cosford, Hangar Four, 78/A/1122
Design of this long-range, strategic transport aircraft began in February 1959, with the first flight in January 1964. Only ten of the originally ordered thirty Belfasts were built, all for the RAF.
Taylorcraft Auster Air Observation Post Mk I
Aircraft & Exhibits, 1942-23 OCT 2002, London, Hangar Three/Four, X002-9988
A small single engined, fixed undercarriage, high-wing army observation aircraft, from 1942 to the end of the war the Auster AOP served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and with the 2nd Tactical Air Force from Normandy to Germany.
Hawker Tempest TT.5
Aircraft & Exhibits, JAN 1945-1972, In Storage, 72/A/571
The Tempest was one of the last piston-engined front line fighters demonstrating the maximum performance that could be achieved with a piston engine and propeller combination.
English Electric Canberra PR.9
Aircraft & Exhibits, 1960-1992, Cosford, Hangar Four, 1992/0403/A
The Canberra long-range, photo-reconnaissance aircraft was one of several versions of the Canberra bomber, and one of the success stories of the post-war British aircraft industry. Many British-built aircraft were exported and production also took place under licence in the United States of America and Australia.
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