Aircraft Photo of V3388 | Airspeed AS-10 Oxford I | UK - Air Force | AirHistory.net #754881
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:V3388
Aircraft Original Type:Airspeed AS-10 Oxford
Aircraft Generic Type:Airspeed AS-10/40/41/42/43/46/65 Oxford/Consul
Aircraft Version:Airspeed AS-10 Oxford I
C/n (msn):3083
Operator Titles:UK - Air Force
Location
City / Airport:DuxfordMap
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Airport Codes:ICAO: EGSU   IATA: -   Local: -   Other: -
Collection:Imperial War Museum Duxford
 
Photo Date:29 June 2011
Photo by:Arjun Sarup
Photo ID: 754881
Photo Comment

On display at IWM Duxford. The Oxford with its all-wooden airframe based on the Airspeed Envoy was ordered in numbers as the RAF's standard twin-engine trainer with a retractable undercarriage. The type could be fitted with a dorsal turret for gunnery training. This Oxford was built in 1940. It spent most of the war in storage at Maintenance Units at RAF Wroughton and Little Rissington. In May 1946 the Oxford was sold to Paul-Boulton Aircraft, which used it for communications as G-AHTW over fourteen years. It went to Skyfame Aircraft Museum and was the last of its kind to fly anywhere.

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