Aircraft Identification Required

[FlyEJF]

Hi guys,

I think this will be the best place to post this request. A friend has asked me to identify the aircraft in this picture. There's not much to go on but wondered whether you guys can work it out. The pic was taken at Duxford and by the looks of it it's a two engined bomber. I'm not having much luck.

Hope you can help?

Ed
misc :: Aircraft at Duxford picture by FlyEJF - Photobucket (http://s764.photobucket.com/albums/xx284/FlyEJF/misc/?action=view&current=AircraftatDuxford2006.jpg)

[amanoffewwords]

Avron Anson perhaps (wild guess, I'm no expert)

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/Anson_Preserved_IWMDuxford.jpg

Source: Avro Anson aircraft profile. Aircraft Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/Anson.html)

[FlyEJF]

Yes it does look like that. Good work! Anyone else like to confirm?

Ed

[treadigraph]

Yep, definitely the Annie...

[Mad (Flt) Scientist]

I'll agree it looks similar, but how about a different means to confirm.

If you have access to the sequence of photos before and after, look in those for other, more identifiable aircraft. Then check IWM Duxford's list of aircraft exhibits (http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/upload/pdf/AircraftandVehicles.pdf)

The list includes the info as to which hangar/building each aircraft is (normally) in. So if you may be able to identify which hangar the pic was taken in by the adjacent pics, and thus narrow the list of candidate aircraft, hopefully (a) confirming the above as the likely aircraft and (b) giving a relatively short list of alternatives which can be (again hopefully) easily checked and eliminated.

[chiglet]

Looking at the lack of Cylinder Head Covers, it "could" be an Oxford, but with that amount of perspex, it's an "Annie" :ok:

[powerstall]

What's on top of the cockpit? couldn't be an external tank could it? :confused:

[kwachon]

Powerstall,

It's the ADF Loop on top of the cockpit....


KW:ok:

[oldpax]

My first flights were in Ansons and I worked on one or two as well.Delightful aeroplane to fly in!

[gas path]

Now the next question is......!
Is it powered by:
Armstrong Siddeley Cheetahs'
Jacobs
Wright Wirlwinds or
Pratt and Witney Wasp Juniors

I've no idea but I think it depends on its year of manufacture and/or its country of origin.

[gileraguy]

Well, it has very small drip trays, so i'm inclined to say that the engines AREN'T English...

[DeepestSouth]

It's Anson 1 N4877, formerly G-AMDA and part of the Skyfame collection at Staverton, grounded after a landing accident in 1972. Not many Anson 1s survived.

[FlyEJF]

Thanks very much for the info guys

Much appreciated
Ed

[Sandy Hutton]

It's an Anson, with ungeared Cheetah engines and a fixed pitch wooden prop. The cowlings were of the Oxford type as the originals had bumps for the rocker boxes..

I was an Anson man for 17 years:ok:

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Had my first flight in VM363 on 11 Aug 1958 at RAF Colerne. God, I wish I could wind the clock back to those days!

[barit1]

Now the next question is......!
Is it powered by:
Armstrong Siddeley Cheetahs'
Jacobs
Wright Wirlwinds or
Pratt and Witney Wasp Juniors

Definitely not the latter three - Prop turns the wrong way! :)