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A selection of training aircraft types used by the Royal Air Force prior to and during WW2, are shown here displaying on the first day of the Duxford RAF 100 and Battle of Britain Airshow 2018.

The aircraft are:-
1/. Avro 621 Tutor, K3241, G-AHSA - The Shuttleworth Collection
This is one of the main production batch; it was used by the RAF College Cranwell and Central Flying School (CFS) and then as a communications aircraft. It was ‘demobbed’ in December 1946 and in February 1947 was restored to the Civil Register, as G-AHSA, to become part of the Darlington & District Aero Club fleet. It was later owned by Wing Commander Heywood at Burnaston, Derby and suffered crankshaft failure when taking part in the film Reach for the Sky. It was then bought by the Collection. The engine was rebuilt by Armstrong Siddeley at Coventry from the best parts of three non-working units.
In 1979 major engine problems resulted in the aircraft being grounded. A worldwide search failed to produce a suitable replacement engine so the existing Lynx was painstakingly rebuilt by a senior engineer. The cylinders were sent to the USA to be refurbished.
It was completely re-covered in 2005/6 and is now painted in CFS Aerobatic team colours as K3241. It is the sole survivor of its type.

2/.Blackburn B.2, G-AEBJ - BAE Systems Ltd.
This aircraft, the only remaining airworthy Blackburn B.2, was built in 1936 and delivered to Flying Training Ltd at Hanworth, fitted with a Hermes IVA engine in common with the rest of the Hanworth fleet. It returned to Brough with all the other B.2s in 1939 and was retained by Blackburn Aircraft Ltd when the other B.2s were taken over by the RAF. Post war, it was fitted with a Gipsy Major 1 engine and continued to be based and to fly from Brough where it was initially used for instruction at the Blackburn-sponsored Brough Flying Club. Latterly it has been exhibited over many years at various flying meetings and now forms part of the Heritage Fleet of aircraft owned by BAE Systems. In 2006 BAE Systems decided to relocate the B.2 to The Shuttleworth collection at Old Warden.

3/. De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth, DE992, G-AXXV - Fly Tiger Moth Ltd.
The prototype DH82 Tiger Moth E-6 (later G-ABRC) flew for the first time on 26th October 1931.
Intended from the outset for a primary training role, the DH82 Tiger Moth was developed from the DH60T Moth Trainer by the adoption of the inverted Gipsy III engine.

A modified centre section allowed the front seat occupant (Instructor) to escape more easily in emergencies and this was achieved by moving the centre section forward of the front cockpit. Wing sweep was then required to restore the centre of gravity position together with increased lower wing dihedral to improve tip clearance. These key features distinguish the Tiger Moth from the Moth or Moth Major.

Initially, the RAF only ordered 35 dual-control aircraft with the company designation DH82 although this was quickly followed by another for a further 50, powered by the DH Gipsy Major 1 engine. These were known as DH82a or to the RAF ‘Tiger Moth II’.

In February 1932 the Moth entered service at the RAF Central Flying School at RAF Upavon in Wiltshire although by the outbreak of World War II the RAF these were supplemented by a large number of commandeered civil aircraft.
During the full production run of over 8,800 aircraft, over 4,000 were built during the war years with over 50% of that number being built at Morris Motors in Cowley in order to free up capacity at Hatfield for the production of the DH98 Mosquito.

Nowadays, the DH82 Tiger Moth is part of what appears to be a growing family of original and restored Moths spread around the world.

The introduction of the Gipsy Major engine resulted in a change of designation to DH82A and the Tiger Moth rapidly became the standard trainer for civilian and RAF use and was widely exported.

Tiger Moths, like its fore-runners, were also built by De Havilland Canada although their variant feature Menasco engines and are known better as DH82C Menasco Moths. Canada created 1,548 aircraft as well as an additional 200 Tiger Moths for the USAAF Lend-Lease scheme which were designated PT-24 before being delivered to the Canadian Air Force.

Initially, De Havilland Australia produced 20 aircraft from UK built components which lead to a further 1,070 being built at Mascot Aerodrome near Sydney.

Other overseas manufacturing added to the tally with 23 aircraft being built in Sweden as the SK.11, 91 by OGMA in Portugal, 38 in Norway and 133 in New Zealand.

4/. Miles M14A Magister, P6382, G-AJRS - The Shuttleworth Collection.
5/. Miles M14A Hawk Trainer, N3788, G-AKPF - David Bramwell.

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