The Avro 626 is a single engine British biplane trainer aircraft produced by Avro during the (1918-1939) inter-war period.
Variants
Avro 626
Two seat multi purpose aircraft
Avro Prefect
RAF and RNZAF name for the 626.
All RNZAF Prefects had three cockpits.
All the RAF machines were two seat navigational training aircraft without the third cockpit installed
Avro 637
Armed patrol version of the Avro 626.
Pilot had a .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun mounted on the fuselage while the observer/gunner was armed with a .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis Gun on an Avro low drag mounting.
This variant featured a slightly larger wingspan with rounded wingtips.
Eight aircraft were sold to the Kwangsi Air Force in China.
Tatra T.126
Licence built 626, manufactured in Czechoslovakia, two versions proposed
One with 355 hp (265 kW) Avia Rk. 17 and export version for Turkey and the Balkans with a 260 hp (190 kW)
Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah V
Only one built, possibly never flown because of the Munich crisis as the factory was in the territory occupied by Germany.