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Cherub
Preserved Bristol Cherub engine
Type Piston aircraft engine
Manufacturer Bristol Aeroplane Company
First run 1923
Major applications Bristol Brownie
Hawker Cygnet

The Bristol Cherub is a British two-cylinder, air-cooled, aircraft engine designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Introduced in 1923 it was a popular engine for ultralight and small aircraft in the 1930s.[1]

  1. ^ Guttery 1969, p.80.

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