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what is it?
The Avro 510 was a two-seat racing seaplane designed by Avro to compete in the 1914 Circuit of Britain Race. It was a conventional two-bay biplane of greatly uneven span, equipped with two large central floats and two outriggers. The race was called off at the outbreak of the First World War, but the British Admiralty was aware of the type and ordered five examples, with modified floats and tail.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 19.2 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 112 years ago, in 1914.
- Wingspan of 19.2 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1914
- introduced
- 1914
- retired
- 1917
- status
- retired
- number built
- 5
- role
- racing and patrol seaplane
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- makers
- Avro
- engines
- 1× Sunbeam Crusader
- crew
- 1
- length
- 11.6 m
- wingspan
- 19.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,270 kg
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q372257, Wikipedia: Avro 510 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.