Avro Tudor 5 of Lome Airways (Canada) at London Stansted Airport in September 1953
Role
Airliner
Type of aircraft
Manufacturer
Avro
Designer
Roy Chadwick
First flight
14 June 1945
Primary users
B.S.A.A BOAC
Produced
1945–1949
Number built
38
Developed from
Avro Lincoln
Developed into
Avro Ashton
The Avro Type 688 Tudor was a British piston-engined airliner based on Avro's four-engine Lincoln bomber, itself a descendant of the famous Lancaster heavy bomber, and was Britain's first pressurised airliner. Customers saw the aircraft as little more than a pressurised DC-4, and few orders were forthcoming, important customers preferring to buy US aircraft. The tailwheel undercarriage layout was also dated and a disadvantage.
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several years in coming, and particularly in the case of the tailwheel AvroTudor, not what BOAC wanted. Since 1941, the advanced pressurised Lockheed Constellation...
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