The Avro York was a British transport aircraft developed by Avro during the Second World War. The design was derived from the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber...
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H) Avro 502 Avro 503 (Type H) Avro 504 Avro 508 Avro 510 Avro 511 Avro 514 Avro 519 Avro 521 Avro 523 Pike Avro 527 Avro 528 Avro 529 Avro 530 Avro 531...
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The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary...
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The Avro 691 Lancastrian was a British and Canadian passenger and mail transport aircraft of the 1940s and 1950s developed from the Avro Lancaster heavy...
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was renamed before services started in 1946. BSAA operated mostly Avro aircraft: Yorks, Lancastrians and Tudors and flew to Bermuda, the West Indies, Mexico...
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Aden Airways (section Avro York)
leased from Central African Airways. A number of Avro Yorks were leased from Skyways in 1954 and 1955. Two Avro 748s were ordered in May 1960. The order was...
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people with the name) Avro York, a British transport plane of the 1940s Filmotype York, typeface produced by Filmotype HMS York, several warships of the...
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British Aerospace 146 (redirect from Avro RJ)
from 1983 until 2001. Avro International Aerospace manufactured an improved version known as the Avro RJ. Production for the Avro RJ version began in 1992...
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Douglas DC-3s, Liberators, converted Sunderlands, and the first Avro Lancastrians, Avro Yorks, and Handley Page Haltons. The Short Empire, Short S.26 and...
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West Berlin. Dan-Air's acquisition of three ex-RAF Transport Command Avro Yorks in 1954 resulted in establishment of Dan-Air Engineering as a sister company...
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On 2 August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Lancastrian airliner on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile...
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Roy Chadwick (category Avro Lancaster)
the Avro Company. Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth, Widnes, the son of the mechanical engineer Charles Chadwick, he was the chief designer for Avro and...
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The Avro 504 is a single-engine biplane bomber made by the Avro aircraft company and under licence by others. Production during World War I totalled 8...
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Albemarle (RAF) Armstrong Whitworth Whitley (RAF) Avro Manchester (RAF) Avro Lancaster (RAF) Avro Lincoln (RAF) Boeing Fortress (RAF) Boulton Paul Overstrand...
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withdrawn from RAF service, having been replaced in the transport role by the Avro York, a derivative of the Lancaster that had previously displaced it from the...
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The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) is a jet-powered, tailless, delta-wing, high-altitude, strategic bomber, which was operated...
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1943–1944 Avro York I 1943–1952 Douglas Dakota 1944 Avro Anson XX 1944–1945 Douglas Skymaster 1946–1949 Avro Lancastrian C2 1946–1951 Avro York C1 1950...
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error. All 94 aboard were killed. 94 May 25, 1958 1958 Dan-Air Avro York crash- An Avro York crashed at Gurgaon following an in-flight fire caused by engine...
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83 Group Support Wing. 1310 Flight was re-formed at RAF Lyneham with Avro York transport aircraft to provide transport services for the early nuclear...
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Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Avro Athena Avro Lancaster Avro Lancastrian Avro Lincoln Avro Manchester III Avro Tudor Avro York Boulton Paul Balliol and Sea...
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aircraft belonging to the squadron. Avro Anson Vickers Wellington Douglas C-47 Dakota De Havilland DH-89 Dragon Rapide Avro York Lockheed Ventura De Havilland...
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On 2 February 1953, an Avro York four-engined piston airliner registered G-AHFA of Skyways disappeared over the North Atlantic on a flight from the United...
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On 1 February 1945 an Avro York carrying members of the British delegation to the Yalta conference crashed off the Italian island of Lampedusa. During...
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shares in 1955. A Vickers Viscount was introduced in October 1955 while an Avro York cargo aircraft was leased in June 1957. On 15 December 1960 the first...
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The Avro Type 694 Lincoln is a British four-engined heavy bomber, which first flew on 9 June 1944. Developed from the Avro Lancaster, the first Lincoln...
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The Avro 679 Manchester was a British twin-engine heavy bomber developed and manufactured by the Avro aircraft company in the United Kingdom. While not...
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The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. The CF-105 held the promise of Mach 2 speeds at...
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achieved a longtime company goal by operating a route to Europe when an Avro York landed in Bournemouth, England, after the long flight from Palmietfontein...
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with limited airports in Maluku, Papua, and Sulawesi. Avro Lancastrian (Transatlantic mail) Avro York (Berlin Airlift) Boeing C-7000 Curtiss JN-4 Douglas...
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The Avro 707 (also known as Type 707) is an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Avro. It was developed to...
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