Airworthy Avro Anson

[PaperTiger]

Still there AFAIK (R9725). Static display only so I don't know how much internal restoration was done.

There is a great timeline website about Greenwood's restoration, with lots of detail shots, but I think that one is a Canadian-built MkII.

[TwoDeadDogs]

Hi all
Try the Irish Air Corps' Museum at Baldonnel,County Dublin,Ireland.They have Anson XIX "141" in static display order indoors and probably have plenty of tech docs for the type.They have at least two Cheetah cutaway engines on display.
regards
TDD

[WHBM]

My father (WW2 Halifax aircrew) described, very occasionally, how they looped the base Anson one day. All blamed on a mad captain who thought the idea up. Good preparation, they donned parachutes and had a prearranged story about how the controls jammed and they had to bale out in case it all went awry, then climbed above the clouds one day, but apparently it went over as sweet as anything. Engines never faltered.

There, you didn't know it was aerobatic did you ? Somehow they knew not to try it with a Halifax. Wonder what the CO would have said if he found out ?

[Prangster]

Frightened To Death By An Anson

When August 1963. Where RAF Kinloss. Duty, first flight as an ATC cadet in what I think was a CC19. Mighty Cheetas reved up to max pooter power, and we amble skywards unstick is about 1/3 along runway followed by a big bang as port engine fails. Quick return to terra firma and first lesson of airmanship clocked. Always use all the runway or else. ACLO takes pity on me as 'Not good introduction to flying is it lad' Bundles me onto OCU Shackelton that then chucks starboard inner engine about 2 hours out into the big wet patch north of Scotland. 'Not you again says ACLO?' Sighing and having me forcibly tied into a Chipmunk whilst muttering 'These buggers never go wrong'......but that's another story

[hallibagger]

Anson repair info.

We have contacted all the museums in the Western part of Canada as that was where the bulk of the Ansons seemed to retire to. They were sold to the local farmers and generally they were pretty full of fuel, which we assume is why the farmers bought them, as several Ansons were sold to several of the purchasers

We did manage to get quite a few, full scale, sketches from the Western groups and we are working with them.

This particular Annie came from the Reynolds Museum at Wetwasakin, Alberta. We shipped them a Tutor and they sent us an Anson back on the same trailer.

[hallibagger]

Sandy, need new address!

Sandy, we would love to accept your offer of help but my message was returned as the e-mail address you gave me does not work:


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<[email protected]>
(reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown)

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... while talking to [84.252.225.82]:
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550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>... User unknown
<<< 503 5.5.2 Need Rcpt command.

I tried to contact you via the forum but you have selected that you do not want to accept e-mails.

Do you want to give me your current e-mail address?

Deryck

[hallibagger]

Greenwood's project.

That certainly does look like a Mk II. Supposedly one of our guys went into Greenwood while on vacation and he made no mention of their Anson project. I suspect that when these ex-military types get together it is in a bar, not the workshop!

Thanks, I have sent a note to the shop drawing their attention to the detail that is available.

It appears that a useful tool to have in the shop would be a computer!! If only I could get someone to operate it.

[Evileyes]

Hallibagger,

You might want to give the Smithsonian Institute a try as they have an extensive collection of aircraft technical drawings:

http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/arch/collections.cfm

http://siris-thesauri.si.edu/ipac20/...I&index=#focus

Good luck!

[hallibagger]

Anson in US service.

Thanks Evileyes,

Of course, the Anson MK II was also used by the USAAC as the Avro AT-20!

I have forwarded a request and, no doubt, in the fullness of time, I will receive a response.

Good suggestion!

[Sandy Hutton]

Hallibagger, check your pm's.. I forgot to change my e-mail on leaving the PFA

[Exnomad]

Ansons

I did some very cold night navigation exercises in Mk 19s from Bishops Court in 1952 (No 12 course), Dress was pajamas under uniform, followed by two layers of flying suits.

[brakedwell]

After a two year tour in Bahrain I joined Coastal Command Communications Flight at Bovingdon, so I felt the cold. During the winter I used to sit on my feet to keep them warm on our flights to Kinloss, Turnhouse, Aldergrove and Ballykelly.
By good fortune my one and only engine failure occured in mid summer, between the Isle of Man and Liverpool!

[hallibagger]

Avro Anson drawings.

OK, Just to close this off:

I eventually contacted the Avro Heritage Centre through BAE Woodford and they have now catalogued their Avro Anson, fuselage, drawings and we are in the process of trying to determine exactly which drawings we need and how to economically copy them. Right now it looks like they can scan about 30 drawings onto a disk.

Thanks Guys, we really appreciate all your help in running these down.

[merv32249213]

avro anson

http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/i...PH843anson.jpg

I often wonder where our two Station Flight Ansons PH843 and TX196 at RAF Amman in the 1950s ended up

[PaperTiger]

I often wonder where our two Station Flight Ansons PH843 and TX196 at RAF Amman in the 1950s ended up.

Neither seems to have survived according to this:
http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/Anson%20Census.htm although there's a remote chance they could be among the unidentified airframes.

[Kieron Kirk]

Try the link below, pictures and info on PH843.

TX196 last with Wittering Station Flight.
Sold as scrap 7th January 1969.


http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...e+Search&meta=

[John Hill]

I remember Southern Scenic Airlines of Queenstown, New Zealand, operated an Anson in the early 50's until they replaced it with a Dominie!

[aviate1138]

chevvron said in part...

"Thinking back, I seem to recollect at least one Bovingdon Anson (having been sold) being used to ferry supplies to Biafra where there was a civil war in progress; that must've been about '69."

Aviate shudders recalling the time when we went to Bovingdon in 1969/70, having been working on a movie called "Mosquito Squadron" a few weeks previously and carved up 4 lovely Ansons and removed the 450 HP Cheetah engines to use as wind machines! The other thing I remember is the shiny stainless steel cladding on a Bovingdon hangar which was re-clad not long before the airfield was abandoned!

Must have cost a fortune.