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The Blackburn Beverley was a large transport aircraft, designed for carrying large and bulky payloads and landing on rough or imperfect runways, or dirt strips. In terms of its basic configuration, it was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with a fixed undercarriage .
Blackburn Aircraft was founded by Robert Blackburn and Jessy Blackburn, ... Blackburn Beverley photographed in 1964. The type served the RAF as a heavy lift transport ...
The Sutton Wick air crash occurred on 5 March 1957 when a Blackburn Beverley C Mk 1 heavy transport aircraft, serial number XH117, of 53 Squadron Royal Air Force crashed at Sutton Wick, Drayton, Berkshire, [notes 1] England, following a shut-down of one engine and partial loss of power on another. [1]
The Blackburn Beverley is being dismantled in Hull and moved to a museum in Cumbria.
General Aircraft GAL.58 Hamilcar X – a powered version of the Hamilcar I with 22 converted from the latter. General Aircraft GAL.60 Universal Freighter – a freight-carrying aircraft later to become the Blackburn Beverley. One prototype built.
Pages in category "Blackburn aircraft" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. ... Blackburn Beagle; Blackburn Beverley; Blackburn Blackburd;
In 1949, the Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company changed its name to Blackburn & General Aircraft Limited and built a number of aircraft at Brough, including the Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft and the Blackburn Buccaneer maritime strike aircraft.
On 1 January 1949, GAL merged with Blackburn Aircraft, and the first GAL.60 was transported in sections by road to Brough Aerodrome, Yorkshire, where development and production continued as the Blackburn Beverley.