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Kestrel
Role Advanced trainer
National origin United Kingdom
Manufacturer Phillips and Powis Aircraft Ltd
Designer F. G. Miles
First flight May 1937
Retired August 1941
Number built 1
Variants Miles Master

The Miles M.9 Kestrel was a 1930s British single-engined tandem seat monoplane, intended as an advanced trainer. Only one Kestrel was built but it was developed into the Miles Master for the RAF and produced in large numbers at the start of the Second World War.

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