Airspeed Ltd. - List of Aircraft and First Flight

List of Aircraft and First Flight

• Airspeed Tern – (1931)

Glider (sailplane); built to get publicity by breaking British gliding records (Two built; plus parts for third, which were sold)

• AS4 Ferry – (5 April 1932)

Three-engine biplane transport aircraft

• AS5 Courier – (1 April 1933)

Single-engine low-wing monoplane passenger transport with retractable undercarriage of conventional configuration

• AS6 Envoy – (26 June 1934)

Two-engine development of the Courier

• AS8 Viceroy – (August 1934)

Variant of Envoy, adapted for long-range flight. One aircraft was built

• AS10 Oxford – (19 June 1937)

Larger two-engine development of Envoy

• AS30 Queen Wasp – (11 June 1937)

Single-engine single-seat biplane target drone aircraft

• AS39 Fleet Shadower – (18 October 1940)

Four-engine high-wing monoplane maritime patrol aircraft prototype. Two aircraft were ordered; one was completed

• AS45 Cambridge – (19 February 1941)

Single-engine two-seater low-wing monoplane trainer aircraft with retractable undercarriage of conventional configuration. Two aircraft were built

• AS51 Horsa I – (12 September 1941)

Large troop-carrying glider

• AS57 Ambassador – (10 July 1947)

Two-engine high-wing piston engine airliner

• AS58 Horsa II –

Variant of Horsa with openable nose section for front loading

• AS65 Consul – (March 1946)

Civilian conversion of wartime Oxford