Avro Avian

what is it?

The Avro Avian is a series of British light aircraft designed and built by Avro in the 1920s and 1930s. While the various versions of the Avian were sound aircraft, they were comprehensively outsold by the de Havilland Moth and its descendants. American examples manufactured under licence by the Whittesley Manufacturing Co.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.5 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 169 km/htop speed
• size 691 kgmax take-off weight
• built 405made in total

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 100 years ago, in 1926.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1926

introduced

1927

number built

405

role

tourer/trainer

makers

Avro

engines

1× Cirrus Hermes I

crew

2

length

7.4 m

wingspan

8.5 m

height

2.6 m

max take-off weight

691 kg

top speed

169 km/h

cruise speed

145 km/h

range

—

ceiling

3,810 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.