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Blackburn Aircraft
Blackburn Aircraft
Blackburn Aircraft Limited
Fate Successor Founded Defunct Headquarters Industry
acquisition and merger Hawker Siddeley Group 1914 1960 Brough, Yorkshire aviation, aircraft engines
Blackburn Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer that concentrated mainly on naval and maritime aircraft during the first part of the twentieth century.
Blackburn Beverley photographed in 1964. The type served the RAF as a heavy lift transport between 1955 and 1967. A total of 47 were built • Blackburn Mercury (1911) - single-engine, two-seat midwing monoplane training aircraft • Blackburn Type B (1912) - single-engine, two-seat midwing monoplane training aircraft. A development of the Blackburn Mercury • Blackburn Type D (1912) - single-engine single seat mid-winged monoplane • Blackburn Type E (1912) - single-engine, midwing metal-framed monoplanes, one single seater one twin • Blackburn Type I (1913) - single engine 1/2 seat mid-wing monoplane built both as land- and seaplane • Blackburn Type L (1914) - single engine two seat biplane seaplane • Blackburn Twin Blackburn (1915) - twinfuselage, two-engine, two-seat anti-Zeppelin seaplane • AD Scout (1915) - Admiralty designed single-engine, single-seat pusher antiZeppelin aircraft. Built by Blackburn and by Hewlett & Blondeau • Blackburn Triplane (1916) - Blackburn designed triplane version of Scout • Blackburn White Falcon (1916) - single engine two seat mid-wing monoplane • Blackburn General Purpose (1916) - twin engine three seat seaplane biplane antisubmarine patrol bomber
History
The origin of Blackburn is with Robert Blackburn who built his first aircraft in 1908. The Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company was created in 1914. A new factory was built at Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1916. By acquiring the Cirrus-Hermes company in 1937, Blackburn started producing aircraft engines - the Blackburn Cirrus range. The company’s name was changed to Blackburn Aircraft Limited in 1939, and the company amalgamated with General Aircraft Limited in 1949 as Blackburn and General Aircraft Limited. By 1958 the name was Blackburn Aircraft Limited. Its aircraft production operation was absorbed into Hawker Siddeley in 1960, and its engine operations into Bristol Siddeley, as part of the rationalisation of British aircraft manufacturers, and the Blackburn name was dropped completely in 1963.
Aircraft
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. • Blackburn First Monoplane (1909) single-engine, single-seat high-wing monoplane aircraft • Blackburn Second Monoplane (1911) single-engine midwing monoplane aircraft
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• Blackburn Kangaroo R.T.1 (1918) - twinengine, three-seat biplane reconnaissance/ torpedo bomber • Blackburn N.1B (1918) - single-engine single seat biplane flying boat escort bomber (started; not finished; never flew) • Blackburn Blackburd (1918) single-engine, single-seat biplane torpedo bomber • Blackburd Sidecar (1919) single engine two seat mid wing monoplane ultra light: may not have flown • Blackburn Swift T.1 (1920) - singleengine, single-seat floatplane torpedo bomber • Alula D.H.6 (1921) - single-engine experimental wing conversion of a de Havilland DH.6 • Alula Semiquaver (1921) - single-engine experimental wing conversion of the Martinsyde Semiquaver • Blackburn Dart T.2 (1921) - single-engine, single-seat biplane torpedo bomber • Blackburn Blackburn R.1 (1922) - singleengine, three-seat biplane naval spotter/ reconnaissance aircraft • Blackburn Pellet (1923) - single-engine single-seat biplane Schneider racer • Blackburn Bluebird B-2 (1924) - singleengine, two-seat biplane training/touring aircraft • Blackburn Cubaroo T.4 (1924) - singleengine, four-seat large biplane torpedo bomber • Blackburn Velos T.3 (1925) - singleengine, two-seat biplane bomber floatplane • Blackburn Airedale R.2 (1925) - singleengine three-seat high wing monoplane reconnaissance • Blackburn Iris R.B.1 (1926) - three-engine, five-seat biplane flying boat • Blackburn Ripon T.5 (1926) - singleengine, two-seat biplane reconnaissance/ torpedo bomber • Blackburn Sprat (1926) single-engine twoseat biplane advanced trainer • Blackburn Turcock F.1 (1928) - singleengine fighter aircraft • Blackburn Beagle (1928) single-engine two seat two-seat biplane bomber • Blackburn Lincock F.2 (1928) - singleengine, single-seat biplane fighter • Blackburn Nautilus 2F.1 (1929) - singleengine two-seat engine biplane fighter
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• Blackburn Bluebird IV (1929) - singleengine, two-seat biplane training/touring aircraft • Blackburn T.7B (1929) - single-engine three-seat biplane bomber/reconnaissance for Japanese Navy • Blackburn Sydney R.B.2 (1930) - threeengine, four-seat parasol-wing long-range flying boat • Blackburn Nile C.B.2 (1930) - threeengine, two-seat parasol-wing cargo transport, a variant of the Sydney • Blackburn Segrave B-1 (1930) - twoengine, four-seat low-wing monoplane touring aircraft • Blackburn B-2 (1932) - single-engine, twoseat biplane training aircraft • Blackburn M.1/30 (B-3) (1932) - singleengine, two-seat biplane naval torpedo bomber • Blackburn Baffin T.8/B-5 Baffin (1932) single-engine, two-seat biplane torpedo bomber • Blackburn C.A.15C (1932) twin-engine ten passenger high wing monoplane/ biplane airliner • Blackburn Shark T.9/B-6 Shark (1933) single-engine, three-seat carrier-based biplane torpedo bomber • Blackburn Perth R.B.3 (1933) - threeengine, five-seat biplane flying boat • Blackburn F.3 (1934) - single-engine single-seat biplane fighter: built, never flew • Blackburn B-7 (1934) - general-purpose biplane • Blackburn B-9 (H.S.T. 10) (1936) - twinengine twelve passenger low wing monoplane airliner: built, never flew • Blackburn Skua B-24 (1937) - singleengine, two-seat low-wing monoplane fighter/dive bomber • Blackburn Roc B-25 (1938) - singleengine, two-seat low-wing monoplane fighter/dive bomber with rear turret (built by Boulton Paul Aircraft) • Blackburn Botha B-26 (1938) - two-engine, four-seat high-wing monoplane reconnaissance/torpedo bomber & crew trainer • Blackburn B-20 (1940) - twin-engine, sixseat experimental monoplane retractablehull flying boat • Blackburn Firebrand B-37 F Mk.I (1942) single-engine, single-seat propeller naval fighter
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• Blackburn Firebrand B-45 TF Mk.II (1943) - single-engine, single-seat propeller naval strike fighter • Blackburn Firebrand B-46 TF Mk.IV (1945) - single-engine, single-seat propeller naval strike figher • Blackburn Firecrest B-48 Y.A.1) (1947) single-engine, single-seat propeller naval strike fighter • Blackburn B-54 (Y.A.5, Y.A.7, Y.A.8) (1949) - single-piston-engine, two-seat contra-rotating propeller naval antisubmarine aircraft • Blackburn B-88 (Y.B.1) (1950) - singleturboprop-engine, two-seat contrarotating propeller naval anti-submarine aircraft • Blackburn Beverley B-101 (1950) - fourengine, high-wing, propellers, transport airplane (designed by General Aircraft) • Blackburn Buccaneer B-103 (1958) - twoengine, two-seat jet naval strike aircraft
Blackburn Aircraft
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Engines (with Turbomeca)
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External links
• The history of Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. Timeline of British aerospace companies since 1955 1950s 1960s 1970s
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