An Avro Anson:
The Anson was designed in the early 1930s to be a maritime patrol airplane. By the time the war began, it was obsolete for that role. But it excelled as a multi-engine trainer and a utility aircraft; so well that it remained in production for twenty years and served in the RAF for over thirty years.
It likely was the Brit analogue to the Twin Beech.
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Lordy, what passenger visibility!
ReplyDeleteThe Anson and the Airspeed Oxford tended to fill the BE-18 role hand in hand. Each had a few narrow advantages and were produced in near identical numbers. The Anson and the Oxford worked well with crew integration, as they allowed navigators, radio operators, bombadiers, gunners and pilots to all fly on the same aircraft/flight.
ReplyDeleteThe Anson did see a little action, including an incident where 3 Ansons were jumped by 9 Bf-109s. They drove off the 109's, killing two and damaging a third for no loss of their own.
The problem with the Anson was it's wooden construction. That is why there are so few left compared to the Beech 18s.
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