The Avro Anson is a British twin-engined, multi-role aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm, Royal Canadian Air Force and numerous other air forces before, during, and after the Second World War. Developed from the Avro 652 airliner, the Anson, named after British Admiral George Anson, was developed for maritime reconnaissance, but found to be obsolete in this role. It was then found to be suitable as a multi-engined aircrew trainer, becoming the mainstay of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. By the end of production in 1952, a total of 8,138 had been built by Avro in nine variants, with a further 2,882 built by Federal Aircraft Ltd in Canada from 1941.
Users[]
Afghanistan
Arabia
Argentina
Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- British Empire
- Canada
- Czechoslovakia
- Czechoslovakian Air Force
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Greece
- Royal Hellenic Air Force
- Haiti
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Paraguay
- Portugal
- Republic of China
- South Africa
- Sweden
- Syria
- Turkey
- Yugoslavia
See Also[]
- Airspeed Oxford
- Focke-Wolf Fw58
- Wichita AF AT-8/40
