Small twin-engined airliner built by Tugan Aircraft
LJW7 Gannet
Role
Airliner
Type of aircraft
National origin
Australia
Manufacturer
Tugan Aircraft
Designer
Lawrence Wackett
First flight
1935
Number built
8
Developed from
Cockatoo Dockyard Codock
The Tugan LJW7 Gannet, also known later as the Wackett Gannet after its designer Lawrence Wackett, was a small twin-engined airliner built by Tugan Aircraft in Australia in the 1930s.[1][2] It was the first Australian-designed aircraft to enter series production. It was also the first Australian-designed and built aircraft to be taken on strength (put into operational service) by the Royal Australian Air Force.
^Watkins 1961, p.600
^Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 1988, p.498
The Tugan LJW7 Gannet, also known later as the Wackett Gannet after its designer Lawrence Wackett, was a small twin-engined airliner built by Tugan Aircraft...
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for the Royal Australian Navy in 1931. LJW7 – TuganGannet, Wackett left the Dockyards and joined Tugan Aircraft (itself an evolution of the earlier Genairco...
Western and Eastern Air Detachments, the former under Hely. Flying a TuganGannet, Hely's first task became searching for survey director Sir Herbert Gepp...
the Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Richard Williams, to Singapore in a TuganGannet. He returned to Richmond in May 1938 to lead No. 3 Squadron, operating...