3 results found
Registration / Serial: | XE512 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC.1 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
Operator Titles: | UK - Air Force |
Location: | Not known |
Region / Country: | Unknown Region, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | January 1953 to July 1953 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |
Photo ID: | 642180Submit Correction |
View count: | 201 |
This was the Pioneer prototype, VL515, originally powered by a DH Gipsy Queen inline engine. Re-engined with an Alvis Leonides radial, it became a civil Pioneer II, G-AKBF, and then the first Pioneer CC.1 for the RAF, XE512, in 1953. Photo stamped July 1953. Delivered in August and immediately shipped to Malaysia for service with the Far Eastern Air Force. Crashed there on 4 November 1958.
Registration / Serial: | XE512 |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC.1 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
Operator Titles: | UK - Air Force |
Location: | Not known | Region / Country: | Unknown Region, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | January 1953 to July 1953 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |
Registration / Serial: | XE512 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC.1 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
Operator Titles: | UK - Air Force |
Location: | Not known |
Region / Country: | Unknown Region, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | January 1953 to July 1953 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |
Photo ID: | 642180Submit Correction |
View count: | 201 |
This was the Pioneer prototype, VL515, originally powered by a DH Gipsy Queen inline engine. Re-engined with an Alvis Leonides radial, it became a civil Pioneer II, G-AKBF, and then the first Pioneer CC.1 for the RAF, XE512, in 1953. Photo stamped July 1953. Delivered in August and immediately shipped to Malaysia for service with the Far Eastern Air Force. Crashed there on 4 November 1958.
Registration / Serial: | XE512 |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC.1 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
Operator Titles: | UK - Air Force |
Location: | Not known | Region / Country: | Unknown Region, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | January 1953 to July 1953 |
Photo from: | Peter de Jong CollectionContact |
Registration / Serial: | G-AKBF |
Aircraft Original Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer 2 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
City / Airport: | Farnborough (EGLF / FAB)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Event: | SBAC Farnborough 1951 |
Photo Date: | September 1951 |
Photo from: | Don Bennett CollectionContact |
Photo ID: | 468466Submit Correction |
View count: | 339 |
This Pioneer II was a prototype of a Pioneer I, (VL515) which was civil registered as G-AKBF. The original prototypes (VL515 and VL516) were fitted with Alvis Leonides engines and receiving civil registrations (G-AKBF and G-ANAZ). The first, G-AKBF seen here at Farnborough in 1951 and later to become a RAF Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC.1 - XE512. VV119 the Vickers Supermarine Type 528 registration can just be seen in the background. Scanned from an original image photographer unknown.
Registration / Serial: | G-AKBF |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer 2 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
City / Airport: | Farnborough (EGLF / FAB)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | September 1951 |
Photo from: | Don Bennett CollectionContact |
Registration / Serial: | G-AKBF |
Aircraft Original Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer 2 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
City / Airport: | Farnborough (EGLF / FAB)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Event: | SBAC Farnborough 1951 |
Photo Date: | September 1951 |
Photo from: | Don Bennett CollectionContact |
Photo ID: | 468466Submit Correction |
View count: | 339 |
This Pioneer II was a prototype of a Pioneer I, (VL515) which was civil registered as G-AKBF. The original prototypes (VL515 and VL516) were fitted with Alvis Leonides engines and receiving civil registrations (G-AKBF and G-ANAZ). The first, G-AKBF seen here at Farnborough in 1951 and later to become a RAF Scottish Aviation Pioneer CC.1 - XE512. VV119 the Vickers Supermarine Type 528 registration can just be seen in the background. Scanned from an original image photographer unknown.
Registration / Serial: | G-AKBF |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer 2 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
City / Airport: | Farnborough (EGLF / FAB)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | September 1951 |
Photo from: | Don Bennett CollectionContact |
Registration / Serial: | VL515 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer 1 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
Operator Titles: | Scottish Aviation |
City / Airport: | Manchester - International (EGCC / MAN)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | 24 April 1948 |
Photo by: | R.A.Scholefield |
Photo ID: | 8145Submit Correction |
View count: | 238 |
This was the three-seat prototype for the Scottish Aviation Pioneer, powered by a Gypsy Queen inline engine. It was modified to a four-seat layout with the Alvis Leonides engine and became the prototype Pioneer. Displayed at the April 1948 Ringway airshow.
Registration / Serial: | VL515 |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer 1 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
Operator Titles: | Scottish Aviation |
City / Airport: | Manchester - International (EGCC / MAN)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | 24 April 1948 |
Photo by: | R.A.Scholefield |
Registration / Serial: | VL515 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer 1 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
Operator Titles: | Scottish Aviation |
City / Airport: | Manchester - International (EGCC / MAN)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | 24 April 1948 |
Photo by: | R.A.Scholefield |
Photo ID: | 8145Submit Correction |
View count: | 238 |
This was the three-seat prototype for the Scottish Aviation Pioneer, powered by a Gypsy Queen inline engine. It was modified to a four-seat layout with the Alvis Leonides engine and became the prototype Pioneer. Displayed at the April 1948 Ringway airshow.
Registration / Serial: | VL515 |
Aircraft Version: | Scottish Aviation Pioneer 1 |
C/n (msn): | 101 |
Operator Titles: | Scottish Aviation |
City / Airport: | Manchester - International (EGCC / MAN)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | 24 April 1948 |
Photo by: | R.A.Scholefield |