AVRO 504K G-ABLL ................0596

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Civil 504 of Rimmer Air Services, Hooton Park 1928, subsequently with Cobham's Flying Circus. Includes 8 A4 cards, wings, tail surfaces and fuselage top Astrolux blue, silver Astrolux fuselage flanks and u/s, decals and registrations, vac-formed engine cowling, wire for struts and undercarriage, hand-made metal Le Rhone engine, hand-carved pine propeller, moulded vintage tyres, rigging cable.

Built 1920 as a Royal Air Force basic trainer J 833, powered by one Le Rhone rotary piston engine of 110 horse power.

This aircraft is representative of hundreds that were bought after the First World War by intrepid barnstormers and used to reactivate civil flying in the UK. Many thousands of ordinary citizens had their first taste of flying from remote fields flying in the back seat of 504's. This particular machine was first put on the civil register in 1933, registered to National Air Transport, and almost immediately was purchased and operated by Rimmer Air Services under the company name of North Britain Aviation Co. and was based at Hooton Park Aerodrome. G-ABLL went on tour in 1933 with Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus .

42 cms Wingspan .............................$50.00 (£24.95)