The Series 200 Argosy had a new, lighter wing, increased pay load, two-crew operation and was powered by four 2,250 h.p. Dart 532s.

A 1978 photograph of IPEC’s Series 222 Argosy VH-IPB. It began life in 1959 as G-APWW.

BEA's Argosy Series 222 G-ATTC making a typically steep approach at Heathrow.

Bill Else and Eric Franklin, pilots on the first flight of G-ASKZ.

A Series 200 Argosy under construction at Bitteswell old site in July 1963.

Safe Air Argosy Series 222 ZK-SAF in 1978. Named Merchant Pioneer, AF had previously flown with BEA as G-ASXM.

BEA’s Series 222 G-ASXO was delivered in mid-1965. In 1970 it passed to Midwest Airlines Ltd in Winnipeg and became CF-TAX.

BEA’s first Argosy 222, G-ASXL, taking off on its delivery flight, on January 28, 1965.

Argosy Series 222 CF-TAZ of Transair Midwest Airline of Canada taking off from Resolute Bay in the Arctic.

The first of a batch of ten Series 200 Argosies, G-ASKZ, was first flown on March 9, 1964, from Bitteswell by Eric Franklin.

The flightdeck of Argosy Series 102 G-APVH.

A general arrangement drawing of the projected A.W.670. It was never built.