Vickers Vildebeest - Variants

Variants

Type 132

Prototype built at Weybridge with a Jupiter VII engine.

Type 192

Prototype modified as a Series II with a Jupiter XF engine.

Type 194

Prototype modified as a Series III with a Jupiter XIF engine.

Type 204

Second private venture prototype as Series IV later to Air Ministry

Type 209

Prototype modifed as a Series V with a Jupiter XIF engine.

Type 214

Prototye modified as a Series VI with a Jupiter XFBM engine.

Type 216

Prototype Series VII modified with an Hispano-Suiza 12Lbr engine and flown with floats.

Type 217

Second prototype to have been modified to Series VII but not converted.

Vildebeest Mark I

Type 244 - Initial production version, a two-seat torpedo-bomber powered by a 600 hp (448 kW) Bristol Pegasus IM3 engine. 22 built for the RAF between 1922 and 1933.

Vildebeest Mark II

Type 258 - Variant with more powerful (635 hp (474 kW)) Pegasus IIM3 engine. 30 built for RAF and delivered 1933.

Vildebeest Mark III

Type 267 - Three seat torpedo-bomber. 150 built for RAF, delivered 1935-36. 15 ex-RAF aircraft (including one converted Mark II) diverted to RNZAF later.

Type 277 - Twelve aircraft with folding wings and the ability to carry drop tanks for RNZAF delivered in 1935.

Vildebeest Mark IV

Type 286 - Two seat version powered by 825 hp (615 kW) Bristol Perseus engine.. Eighteen built for RAF, 12 of which were sold to New Zealand.

Type 245 Vildebeest

Series IX, Torpedo bomber for Spanish Navy, powered by 600 hp (448 kW) Hispano-Suiza 12L water cooled V-12 engine. First prototype Vildebeest modified to this standard and flew in this form in June 1930, with 26 licence built in addition to the prototype.

Type 263

One Vildebest I modified with a Pegasus 1M3 engine.

Vincent

Type 266 - Three seat General Purpose version for RAF. Pegasus IIIM3 engine. 197 built new or converted.