AVRO 504K E-3404.................. 0496

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The Shuttleworth Collection's E-3404 in WW1 camoflagued dark green uppers, natural linen undersides. Kit includes 8 colour printed A4 cards, decals and registrations, vac-formed engine cowling, wire for struts and undercarriage, resin-cast Le Rhone rotary engine and propeller, rigging cable.

Built 1920 as a Royal Air Force basic trainer, powered by one Le Rhone rotary piston engine of 110 horse power.

This aircraft started out life as a post-War Avro 504N basic trainer with an Armstrong Siddeley Mongoose radial engine. It was donated by De Havilland's to the Shuttleworth Trust and was converted to 504K basis to make it more representative of the thousands of this version which flew sterling service during the First World War and did so much to start civilian flying again in the United Kingdom after the Armistice. To achieve this conversion a rotary Le Rhone was installed by Avro. This engine was originally in a French Hanriot HD.1 fighter. E3404 was finished in time to take part in the film 'Reach for the Sky about the career of Douglas Bader. After this brief spell of stardom, the 504 came to 0ld Warden and has been a consistent performer ever since.