Avro 500 & 502

The Avro Type E, Type 500, and Type 502 made up a family of early British military aircraft, regarded by Alliott Verdon Roe as his firm’s first truly successful design.

It was a forerunner of the Avro 504, one of the outstanding aircraft of the First World War.

18 aircraft built.

Variants

500

7 built

502

11 built

Specifications

Crew

1

Capacity

1

Length

30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)

29 ft (9 m) Avro 500

Wingspan

36 ft 0 in (10.97 m)

Wing area

330 sq ft (31 m2)

Empty weight

1,100 lb (499 kg)

900 lb (408.2 kg) Avro 500

Gross weight

1,650 lb (748 kg)

1,300 lb (589.7 kg) Avro 500

Powerplant

1 × E.N.V. Type D 4-cylinder water-cooled inline piston engine

Propellers

2-bladed Avro fixed-pitch propeller

Performance

Maximum speed

50 mph (80 km/h, 43 kn)

61 mph (53 kn; 98 km/h) Avro 500

Endurance

6 hours

Rate of climb

170 ft/min (0.86 m/s)

440 ft/min (2.2 m/s) Avro 500.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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