Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIKR   [2]

Last Consul to fly (certainly in the UK) was the Rapid Flying Group’s G-AIKR, which was based at Baginton. Built by Airspeed as Oxford I PK286 in 1945, it saw no service and was sold to the makers in September 1946, emerging as a Consul for Chartair that December. The Rapid group retired G-AIKR in May 1965 and it went to the RAF Museum and then to the Canadian National Aviation Museum at Rockcliffe.

Air International 1989-05 / Talkback

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: VR-SCD   [5], G-AJLR   [5]

This beautifully preserved Airspeed Consul recalls the use of this type by Singapore Airlines in its formative post-war years. The photograph comes from Y C Loh.

Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: VR-SCD   [5], G-AJLR   [5]

Malayan Airways started operations with Consuls in May 1947. To mark its 30th anniversary Singapore Airlines (as it had become) restored former RAF Museum Consul G-AJLR to pristine condition as ‘VR-SCD’ - it is preserved at SAL’s maintenance base.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1947 / All the world's aeroplanes

The Airspeed A.S.65 Consul Light Transport Monoplane (Two 395 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah X engines).

Мировая Авиация 21

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AGVY   [2]

Самолет Consul представлял собой не более чем гражданскую модификацию учебно-тренировочного самолета Oxford.

Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AGVY   [2]

The Consul prototype was G-AGVY, built originally by de Havilland as Oxford IV 3679. As a Consul, it was sold to the Bata Shoe company in March 1946 and crashed in the Lebanon in February 1949.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-04

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIAH

Consul G-AIAH in Morton Air Services titles, probably between 1957 and 1959 but at an unknown location. It was wfu at Portsmouth after C of A expiry on 24.2.59 and burnt in 1961.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-02 / Personal album

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIBC

Airspeed Consul G-AIBC of Westminster Airways Ltd at Croydon on March 15, 1947. This aircraft was scrapped at Southend in 1952.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-05 / N.Lees - Travelling in style /Post-war civil/

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIKR   [2]

An Airwork line-up at Blackbushe with G-AIKR, one of the company’s Consuls used for training, sandwiched between two Vikings. The Consul is preserved at Canada’s National Aviation Museum at Rockcliffe, Ontario, while Viking G-AJFT, acquired in October 1947, was sold in March 1960 and eventually scrapped in September 1963.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Vickers Viking / Valetta - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1945

Aviation Historian 22 / N.Stroud - Off to Butlin's /The John Stroud Archive/

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIKU   [2]

In the immediate post-war period, Billy Butlin acquired his own fleet of corporate aircraft, which in 1950 comprised Fairchild Arguses G-AJGW, G-AJNN, G-AJPE and G-AJVI, Percival Proctor G-AGTE, Miles Martlet G-AAYX and Airspeed Consul G-AIKU, as seen here with the company’s logo, “Butlin’s Camps”, on its rudder.

Aviation Historian 38 / G.Peerless - Hi-de-Hi Flyers!

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIKU   [2]

Butlin acquired Airspeed Consul G-AIKU (c/n 4348) in September 1946.

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-12 / N.Lees - You can't keep a good man down

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIKZ

Sivewright Airways C-47B Dakota G-AGNK ‘Lancastria’ was operated by the Manchester-based airline from July 1949 until March 1951. It went on to serve with BEA until withdrawn from use in 1964.
Visiting Sivewright Airways Dakota Lancastria and Air Malta Airspeed Consul G-AIKZ at Luqa, Malta.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-3 / C-47 Skytrain/С-53 Skytrooper / Dakota - СШАUSA - 1935

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-09 / B.Boddy - Days at the races

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIOV, I-VALZ

Airspeed Consul G-AIOV in the livery of Patrick Duval Aviation. In 1948 ’OV was sold to Air Enterprises and in May 1956 it was sold in Italy and became I-VALZ. It is pictured here at Croydon.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-09 / B.Boddy - Days at the races

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIOL, G-AIOW, G-AIOY

Charter aircraft lined up at Croydon Aerodrome in the winter of 1947-48. They are, from left to right, Consul G-AIOL, Proctor 5 G-AKDZ and Consuls G-AIOW and G-AIOY.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Percival Proctor / P.28 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1939

Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIOX, TJ-ABD

The longer nose made the Consul a smoother-looking evolution of the already handsome Oxford. Airspeed-built Oxford I EB748 became Consul G-AIOX for Transcontinental Air Services of Gatwick in February 1947. It was sold in Transjordan as TJ-ABD in 1950.

Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIUH, VP-KOX

Oxford I G-AIUH served the Reid & Sigrist company at Desford from early 1949. It was later acquired by Hunting Aerosurveys and gained a Consul nose (illustrated). It was sold in Kenya as VP-KOX in 1959.

Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIUX

Consul G-AIUX ‘Star Master’ was used by British South American Airways and later by BOAC for training - note the comprehensive array of aerials and the faired D/F loop. Built by Airspeed as Oxford I LB527 it saw no service use, becoming a Consul in late 1948.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-09 / B.Boddy - Days at the races

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AIVA, EC-AHU

Transair's Croydon-based Airspeed Consul G-AIVA. In February 1953 the aircraft was sold to the Real Aero Club de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas as EC-AHU. The author is seen here standing at far right.

Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AJLR   [5], VR-SCD   [5]

Built at Portsmouth in 1940 and demobbed in February 1947, Oxford I R6029 became Consul G-AJLR in June 1947 serving in turn with Olley Air Services from Croydon; Cambrian Air Services, Cardiff and Morton Air Services of Gatwick. In 1956 it was acquired by All Power Transformers (illustrated) and operated out of Fairoaks until being withdrawn in 1963 and moving on to the RAF Museum. It went to Singapore in 1986.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v1

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AJWR   [2]

Airspeed AS.65 Consul.

Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AJWR   [2]

G-AJWR, originally Airspeed-built Oxford I HN829, served as the prototype (and only?) ambulance version in October 1947. Here it demonstrates the standard Consul swing-nose baggage bay.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-06 / J.Stroud - A million miles flown /A lifetime of flying/

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: EC-ACZ

EC-ACZ was one of the Airspeed A.S.65 Consuls supplied to the Spanish airline Iberia early in 1948. It is seen later that year at a rally at Gatwick Airport. The building is the original terminal which was opened on June 6, 1936. It had six telescopic passenger jetties, was originally known as the Martello Tower and later as the Beehive.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: VR-SCD   [5], G-AJLR   [5]

Singapore Airlines’ Airspeed Consul, ex G-AJLR, was restored to static condition in time for the airline’s 40th anniversary on May 1, 1987. It is painted in the colours of Malayan Airways, SA’s predecessor, which used the type on its first operations in 1947.

Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: VR-TAU, G-AJWY

With Oxfords awaiting conversion in the background, Consul VR-TAU on the compass circle at Portsmouth prior to delivery to United Air Services of Tanganyika in mid-1948. Built as Mk I Oxford EB974 at Portsmouth in 1942, it served only with 116 Squadron in the anti-aircraft gun calibration role. It was registered as G-AJWY for the Consul conversion.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Airspeed Oxford / AS.10 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1937

Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: XY-ABJ, G-AJND

Liverpool-based Steiner’s Air Service operated a fleet of seven Consuls. G-AJND, formerly Airspeed-built Oxford I EB718 was converted to Consul status at Portsmouth (where it is illustrated) and was delivered direct to the Burma Corporation as XY-ABJ without entering service with Steiner’s.

Air Enthusiast 1996-09 / D.Ford - Oxford Graduate

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-22-14, G-22-7

Two Consuls in the Airspeed compound at Portsmouth showing the rare use of the company’s ‘B Condition’ (or ‘trade plate’) markings G-22-. Their previous identities and destination(s) are not known.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1979-04

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: UB339

The Airspeed Oxford was a military aircraft while the Consul was its civil equivalent. In the normal way of things, military aircraft sometimes become civil aircraft without much more conversion that that afforded by a can of paint. However, some Consuls rebuilt as civil transports were converted back to military versions with a heftier punch than any Oxford built for military purposes.
The customer was the newly-independent Government of Burma which required a simple anti-insurgent aircraft of the type built before the war by France and Italy as 'colonial' aircraft and some years after the war by the United States as 'counter-insurgency' aircraft. The Consul can thus be counted as one of the first COIN aircraft to be delivered.
Two fixed Browning 0.303in machine guns were fitted in streamlined pods under the fuselage and attachment points provided under the wings for eight 25-lb rocket projectiles. A dorsal gun turret was specified, presumably a standard Oxford gunnery training turret, but it is not clear whether this was fitted on delivery.
Some civil Consuls were being operated in Burma so commonality probably played its part. UB-339 seems to have been the first and was tested at A&AEE to clear the armament installation but the Putnam book on Airspeed does not specify how many were bought.

Air Enthusiast 2003-09 / S.Aloni - Golden heritage

The first Bedek hangar under construction in 1954 - though a Beech Bonanza, an Airspeed Consul and a Boeing PT-17, as well as a Spitfire, can be seen inside the yet-to-be completed structure.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Beechcraft Model 33/35 Bonanza - СШАUSA - 1945Stearman PT-13 / PT-17 Kaydet / Model 73 (Boeing-Stearman) - СШАUSA - 1934Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX / XVI - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-05 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AJLR   [5], VR-SCD   [5]

Singapore Airlines is wasting no time in restoring its ex-RAF Museum Airspeed Consul G-AJLR to static condition. It was photographed at Changi on February 11, 1987, when the wing was rejoined to the fuselage. By the end of March the airframe was assembled and 80 per cent complete, with just the engine installation, cockpit refurbishment and painting still to do. The Consul should be finished in time for the airline’s 40th anniversary in May.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1947 / All the world's aeroplanes

The Airspeed A.S.65 Consul.