Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

This Auster V was modified to take the 100 h.p. Blackburn Cirrus Minor 2, the engine destined to power the successful Taylorcraft Auster V Series J/1 Autocrat, of which G-AFWN became the prototype. Registered in December 1945, this aircraft is currently airworthy and owned by the Leicester Museum of Technology.

Aeroplane Monthly 1977-09 / A.Hitchman - Auster ancestry (1)

G-AGOH, a standard Auster 5 J/1 was used as a test bed for the Blackburn Cirrus Minor 2.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-04 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Nice air-to-air shot of the prototype Taylorcraft Plus D (rebuilt to Taylorcraft Auster V J/1 Autocrat), G-AFWN.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The prototype Taylorcraft Auster V J/1 Autocrat, G-AFWN.

Aeroplane Monthly 1977-09 / A.Hitchman - Auster ancestry (1)

The prototype and development aircraft, G-AFWN, was originally a pre-war Model D modified to Auster 5 standard. It later became the Taylorcraft Auster 5 J/1 Autocrat, as seen here.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1946 / 03 - All the world's aeroplanes

The Taylorcraft Auster J.1 Three-seat Light-cabin Monoplane (100 h.p. Cirrus Minor II engine).

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

Cardiff-based Cambrian Air Services had been flying from Broom Hall, close to the Butlin’s holiday camp at Pwllheli, before the latter’s opening. After Butlin disposed of his own fleet, it continued pleasure-flying operations from there during the summer months, often using Auster V G-AFWN (c/n 124), named Pembroke.
Cambrian Autocrat G-AFWN Pembroke was delivered new in January 1946 and remained with the company until it was sold in May 1953.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-04

From Bernard Martin's files comes this photo of Autocrat G-AERO which served The Aeroplane for about four years before being sold to New Zealand where it is still current as ZK-AUX.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-06 / ??? - Strangers on deck

Auster J-1 G-AERO, flown by The Aeroplane staff, makes the first carrier landing by a civil aeroplane in October 1946, during a visit to HMS Illustrious.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The Aeroplane's Autocrat, G-AERO, landing on HMS Illustrious on October 15, 1946 in the English Channel.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-06 / ??? - Strangers on deck

Auster J-1 G-AERO, flown by The Aeroplane staff, makes the first carrier landing by a civil aeroplane in October 1946, during a visit to HMS Illustrious.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

G-AGTO, the first production Autocrat, preserved in airworthy condition by the Leicester Museum of Technology.

Air Enthusiast 2001-01 / R.Stitt - Midland Memories (1)

G-AGTO was one of two Austers acquired by Derby Aero Club when it restarted operations after the war. The first production J/1 Autocrat, the immaculate three-seater is currently based at Duxford in Cambridgeshire and is used to give air experience flights to Imperial War Museum volunteers

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-03 / Personal album

T. W. Shipside's Auster, G-AGTO was the first production J-1 Autocrat and is seen cornering in company with D. H. Tiger Moth G-AINW during the morning's racing.

Air Enthusiast 2001-01 / R.Stitt - Midland Memories (1)

Auster J/1N Alpha G-AGTP was the Derby Aero Club's second post-war acquisition. It was written off shortly after take-off at Enstone in May 1978 when it dived into the ground while towing a glider

Air-Britain Archive 1982-04

One of the first production batch of Taylorcraft Auster 5/J-1 Autocrats, G-AGTT is still active. Photo at Blackbushe on 18.4.76 by M.P.Fillmore.

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J-1 вмещал двух человек в передней кабине с двойным управлением и одного пассажира, размещенного сзади по правому борту лицом к левому или двух пассажиров в задней части кабины лицом вперед по полету.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

Autocrat G-AGVI at Silloth 15.4.60.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-10 / A.Welch - Veejay /Post-war civil/

Prop-swinging Auster G-AGVJ - “Veejay” - in the long grass. The prop was at the right height and easy to swing.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-11 / A.Welch - Veejay tours Europe /Post-war civil/

Veejay sits on the hilltop at Salzgitter after being winched up the hill from the landing field.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-10 / A.Welch - Veejay /Post-war civil/

Ann in Veejay practising beat-ups in tow with Frank Irving in the Olympia.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Elliotts of Newbury Olympia / Type 10 EoN - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1947

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-11 / A.Welch - Veejay tours Europe /Post-war civil/

Autocrat G-AGVJ “Veejay” shows its classic Auster profile early in its life. Registered in January 1946, it was later converted to J/1N standard before being withdrawn from use in August 1964.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-11 / B.Elliott - The flying squad (2)

Auster Autocrat G-AGVJ, owned by the Denham Flying Club, was used by the Met in 1957.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-07 / R.Day - Confessions of an airline pilot (3)

Auster Autocrat G-AGVU was delivered to the company in January 1946 and was named Caernarvon. It was sold in February 1952.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Autocrats in production at Rearsby during the winter of 1945-46.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Autocrat G-AGXG plied the sands at Southport Beach with Giro Aviation until damaged beyond repair at Denham in March 1955.

Aeroplane Monthly 1977-10 / A.Hitchman - Auster ancestry (2)

The Autocrat was the mainstay of the British lightplane and club movement during the early post-war years. Here Auster J-1 Autocrat G-AGXJ of the London Aero Motor Services is seen near Elstree in 1946.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

C.Nepean Bishop flying the London Aero Motor Services Autocrat G-AGXJ out of Elstree in 1946. This aircraft was sold in France as F-BGRX in August 1953.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-01

Still at Ipswich in 1954, G-AGXP was then operated by East Anglian Flying Services

Air Pictorial 1992-02

The famous Auster G-AGYD photographed at a PFA annual rally at Cranfield.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-01

G-AGYM, location and date unknown.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-01

Autocrat G-AHAY at Booker on 4.6.68.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-01

Autocrat G-AHCM at Rearsby on 29.5.54.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

Autocrat G-AHHH (2011) spent twenty years in France as F-BAVR between 1950 and 1970. It is shown here airborne at the PFA Rally at Leicester in 1980.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

Something of a rare Auster in British marks, J/1 G-AHHI spent from 1946 to 1957 in Belgium as OO-ANL and OO-PIT, so it must have been photographed before being written off in January 1959.

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

The Auster J/1 Autocrat Three-seat Cabin Monoplane (100 h.p. Blackburn Cirrus-Minor II engine).

Air-Britain Archive 1983-01

G-AHHW at Denham in August 1954.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

Shown at Newcastle in the company of BKS Ambassador G-ALZT, is Autocrat G-AIBR (2151) in Brooklands Aviation colours during 1960. The aircraft was withdrawn from use in 1970.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Airspeed Ambassador / AS.57 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1947

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

One of the very large batch of Austers which features in this edition of UK C of A Applications, Autocrat G-AIBX has been operated for almost twenty years by the Wasp Flying Group at Panshangar and was photographed at Sywell on 3.7.77.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-07 / Hooton Park /Gone but not forgotten/ (3)

One of Wright Aviation's Auster Autocrats.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-07 / R.Day - Confessions of an airline pilot (3)

Cambrian Auster Autocrat G-AIGY at Elstree in the late Forties. It was delivered to the company in November 1946 and was written off at Pwllheli on August 1, 1950.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-03

Still very active is Autocrat G-AIZU, seen landing at the Sywell PFA Rally on 6.7.75.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-11 / B.Elliott - The flying squad (2)

Auster Autocrat G-AJAH was used by the Metropolitan Police during the Bank Holiday of August 6, 1956. At the time the Auster was supplied by Aero films.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v2

Auster J/1 Autocrat.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Ranald Porteous demonstrating an Autocrat fitted with the Goodyear crosswind undercarriage at Sywell on May 21, 1949.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

One of the last Rearsby-built J/1s was G-AMTM, originally G-AJUJ and written off in April 1952 but rebuilt in September the same year. G-AMTM is currently airworthy and is based at Finmere.

Air Pictorial 1957-08

Autocrats fitted at birth with the Gipsy Major I and enlarged fin and rudder are known as the J-1N Alpha. I-AGRA, recently at Bembridge, is a typical specimen, identical with the rejuvenated veterans listed below. In 1950 an Autocrat so treated would have been called a J-1B Aiglet!

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

Another Danish visitor, Autocrat OY-DGY (2025) at Leicester on 6.7.80.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

Autocrat OY-DPI (2129) which has worn these marks from new has visited Britain in recent years but this shot by Erik Holm was taken in Denmark during the sixties.

Aeroplane Monthly 1980-09 / News Spotlight

Auster J/1 Autocrat OY-DPI has been resident in Denmark since 1947.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-12 / Personal album. Civil

Auster J/1 Autocrat PH-NGC, seen here at Rotterdam circa 1960, was previously G-AJRF. It took up residence in Holland as PH-NFC in May 1953, becoming PH-NGC in 1955. The aircraft was written off in August 1963.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-12 / Personal album. Civil

Auster J/1 PH-NFH was registered new to Frits Philips of the Philips electronics company in April 1946 as PH-NAA. In September that year it became PH-LPS, for obvious reasons, and PH-NFH again in November 1953 when sold by its owner. The aircraft is seen here at Rotterdam, circa 1960; today 'FH may be seen in the Aviodome Museum at Amsterdam.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-04 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Australian Auster J/1B Aiglet VH-ADQ

Air Enthusiast 1996-05 / P.Middleton - Outback. The Alice Springs Aviation Museum

Auster J/1B VH-ASQ ‘flies’ amid a large array of artefacts devoted to the development of outback aviation.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

Slightly further from home, VP-KFK was originally VP-UAK (2115) and is shown here at Lympne, presumably when it returned to its birthplace to become G-ARRL in 1961.

Aviation Historian 28 / P.Le Blanc Smith - South by Southeast

Auster Autocrat VP-YFN at Salisbury

Aviation Historian 28 / P.Le Blanc Smith - South by Southeast

After a relatively brief period with RAMS, Autocrat VP-YFM was sold to Air Carriers Ltd of Bulawayo, whose titles it carries here, in 1948. Little is known about this obscure operator, but it is known that "YFM ended its flying career as a result of a crash at Rusape in Southern Rhodesia in 1955.

Aviation Historian 28 / P.Le Blanc Smith - South by Southeast

The three Austers after their arrival at Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia on November 7, 1946, following their journey in formation from Lympne. It took in 27 stops over 28 days, crossing Europe, the Mediterranean and on down through Egypt and East Africa.

Aviation Historian 28 / P.Le Blanc Smith - South by Southeast

Posselt and visitors pose for the camera beside one of the Austers. Ten days after Posselt’s departure, two other Austers, VP-CAO and VP-CAP, left Cambridge to fly to Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where they arrived in mid-November, having covered some 5,400 miles (8,690km), less than the trio’s 6,430 miles (10,348km).

Aviation Historian 28 / P.Le Blanc Smith - South by Southeast

Although it appears that no photographs taken along the route have survived - if indeed any were taken - a sequence capturing the Austers’ arrival at Belvedere shows various members of the delivery party posing beside the aircraft, including, from left to right: “Rusty” Langley; his wife Pat; Theo Posselt; Eric Alsop; unknown.

Aviation Historian 28 / P.Le Blanc Smith - South by Southeast

Posselt discusses the delivery flight with Rhodesian wartime RAF Spitfire pilot Ted Jacklin, who went on to play a major part in the establishment of the Southern Rhodesian Air Force, which became the Royal Rhodesian Air Force in 1954.

Aviation Historian 28 / P.Le Blanc Smith - South by Southeast

Theo Posselt (second from left) supervises the completion of some paperwork at Belvedere on the rear fuselage of one of the Austers. The Blackburn Cirrus Minor-powered Auster J/1 Autocrat prototype, G-AGOH, had made its first flight on May 25, 1945.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-02

Autocrat ZK-AOB refuelling near Queenstown during its tour of NZ in 1947.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-03

A fine shot of Auster ZK-APO which was converted from J/1 to J/1B with Gipsy Major but retained the small rudder of the Autocrat.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-09 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

Auster J/1 Autocrat ZK-AUX, formerly The Aeroplane’s G-AERO, has been acquired by the New Zealand Vintage Aero Club.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

An Auster J/1B Aiglet destined for New Zealand. The J/1B Aiglet closely resembled the Auster J/1N Alpha, a later Autocrat conversion.

Air-Britain Archive 1984-01

Tiger Moth ZK-ANG with spraygear fitted, outside the Auster Air Services hangar at Timaru. Behind it an AAS Auster J/1B ZK-AZU.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: De Havilland Tiger Moth / D.H.82 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1931

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

This New Zealand-registered Auster J/1B Aiglet is pictured on skis at the Tasman Glacier in September 1958.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-01

J/1N G-AGXT at Bickmarsh following a heavy landing on 7.6.69,

Aeroplane Monthly 1981-07 / Plane Crazy

Auster Autocrat G-AGXT over Heathrow's tower - actually a faked picture produced for the London School of Flying's 1960 Christmas card by the editor.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-01

Another J/1N conversion G-AHCK at Shoreham 18.3.72 with a circular cover below the rear cabin windows. Could this have been a camera mounting when it was used by Aero Pictorial and Hunting Surveys in the 1950s and 1960s? The same thing can be seen on G-AGXT, owned throughout that period by Wolverhampton/Derby Aviation.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

Caught by the Editor taking a Dutch holiday at Midden-Zeeland on 20.8.79, J/1N G-AHHP has since been overtaken by current trends and re-registered G-SIME.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

Now with the RAE Aero Club at Farnborough, G-AHHT was built as a J/1 and later converted to J/1N standard.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

J/1N G-AHSO (2123) of Skegness Air Taxi at Sywell 3.7.76.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

Part of the Don Everall fleet, J/1N G-AHST (2137) with Terrier G-ASYG at home at Wolverhampton on 30.3.68.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Auster AOP.6 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1945

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-04 / 1990 UK Aircraft Collections and Museums Guide

The Leicestershire Museum of Technology's Auster J/1N G-AJRH photographed in the late Forties.

Air Pictorial 1956-08 / Air Pictorial's photo-review

Now called the Auster Alpha, the Auster J/1 conversion to J/1N standard is clearly shown in this photo of G-AJRH (c /n. 2606 of 1947) which belongs to Newcastle-upon-Tyne civic authorities. The chief modifications are the larger Aiglet/Autocar tail and the more powerful 130-h.p. Gipsy Major I.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster J/1N Alpha G-APKL fitted with crop spraying equipment for Crop Culture.

Air Pictorial 1958-10 / J.Stevens - Some Thoughts on Farnborough

The Auster J-1N Alpha's Micronair spray units;

Air Enthusiast 2001-01 / R.Stitt - Midland Memories (1)

Derby Aviation's first Dakota G-ANTD on the apron in front of the Municipal Hangar in April 1955, fresh from conversion to civilian standards at Exeter. To the rear are Messenger G-AKKO, an Auster and a former Royal Navy Anson I.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Avro Anson / Type 652 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1935Douglas DC-3 / C-47 Skytrain/С-53 Skytrooper / Dakota - СШАUSA - 1935Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1942

Air Pictorial 1958-08 / ??? - The Auster Workmaster

The Auster Workmaster

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-04 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

View of the Auster J/1U Workmaster G-APMJ, initially registered to Crop Culture (Aerial) Ltd in April 1959. Powered by a 180 h.p. Lycoming, the aircraft carried a 100gal insecticide tank. Workmasters were used for crop spraying in the Sudan, Central Africa and UK.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-04 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

View of the Auster J/1U Workmaster G-APMJ, initially registered to Crop Culture (Aerial) Ltd in April 1959. Powered by a 180 h.p. Lycoming, the aircraft carried a 100gal insecticide tank. Workmasters were used for crop spraying in the Sudan, Central Africa and UK.

Air-Britain Archive 1983-02

This photograph of Auster SE-ARE floatplane, via Malcolm Fillmore, raises a number of questions. We do not know the location (the Mini at least is British-registered) but more importantly, a study of the original shows a very clear letter N painted over beneath the hyphen, the other letters are washable - so perhaps there was an intended sale elsewhere which did not take place?

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Autocrats in production at Rearsby during the winter of 1945-46.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The two-seat unnamed successor to the prewar Taylorcraft C, powered by a 75 h.p. Continental C-75-12 engine, which led directly to the Auster J/2 Arrow.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Production J/2 Arrow G-AIJU was sold in Australia in November 1949, where it became VH-BNQ. It was later converted to Auster J/4 standard and reregistered VH-KFF.

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

The Auster J/2 Arrow Two-seat Cabin Monoplane (75 h.p. Continental engine).

Air Enthusiast 2007-09 / A.Ord-Hume - Butterfly from Essex /Paper planes - projects/

Auster considered the Nuffield engine for its J-2 Arrow. The first 'true' J-2 was G-AICA, powered by a Continental C75 and first flown in mid-1946.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The Auster Arrow prototype, G-AICA. Only half a dozen Arrows were sold on the home market.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster J/2 Arrow G-AJAM has been soldiering on for 40 years and is one of two examples still extant in the land of their birth.

Air Pictorial 1977-09 / ??? - Seen at Sywell

Veteran Auster J/2 Arrow OO-ABU from Belgium was one of more than forty overseas visitors

Air-Britain Archive 1980-04

A pair of 1947-vintage Auster Arrows which have both spent the whole of their careers in Belgium. OO-ABU is shown at the 1980 PFA Rally

Air-Britain Archive 1980-04

A pair of 1947-vintage Auster Arrows which have both spent the whole of their careers in Belgium. OO-ABV is at Ghent in G.A.C. colours during their ownership from 1950 to 1966

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J-2 Arrow (VH-KAE), был зарегистрирован в Великобритании как гражданский G-AJPV. В мае 1950 года продан в Австралию. Самолет оказался непопулярным в Великобритании, а потому в основном экспортировался.

Air Pictorial 1957-09

The lengthened nose of renamed Auster J-2 Super Arrow, VH-ACD (c/n. 2390, ex G-AJPT), houses a Continental flat-six motor fitted by owner C. G. Henderson at Archerfield, Brisbane. Top speed goes up by 23 m.p.h., but fuel consumption is double.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The one and only Auster J/3 Atom, G-AHSY, was an Arrow airframe fitted with a 65 h.p. Continental C-65-12 engine. It was first flown in September 1946, dismantled in 1950 and rebuilt as J/4 G-AJYX later the same year.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster J/4 G-AIJS, photographed circa 1959, is still active in the Eighties, having spent much of its time based in the North of England.

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Для Arrow, Atom и Archer использовался один базовый фюзеляж J-1. На снимке - J-4, представлявший собой более мощный вариант J-2.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v2

Auster J/4 Arrow.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster J/4 G-AIPR photographed shortly after it was built. Today it is owned by Roy Mills and is based at Wycombe Air Park.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

In May 1951 Auster J/4 G-AIPL was sold in Australia, where it was fitted with a special crosswind undercarriage and registered VH-AEA.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster J/4 G-AIZT takes off from Rearsby in the early Fifties. This aircraft crashed and burned at Gaddesby, Leicestershire in April 1951.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-07 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The last Auster J4 built was G-APJM, seen here over Watford (near Leavesden ???) on August 1, 1960, piloted by John Duer. This pilot had a narrow escape when he ditched the aircraft near the Varne Lightship on May 27, 1961. The Auster sank to the seabed and the pilot was rescued.

Air Pictorial 1957-12 / Air Pictorial's photo-review

BEATING THE ATLANTIC? First view of a nose-wheel tricycle Auster Model J/4 (VH-BNQ, c/n. 2361, ex G-AIJU) which has been rebuilt by Kingsford Smith Aviation Services Pty. of Bankstown, N.S.W. Originally this two-seater crashed at Mt. Perry, Queensland on 26th March 1951 and languished until the conversion was undertaken recintly.

Aeroplane Monthly 1977-10 / A.Hitchman - Auster ancestry (2)

The Auster model P Avis was not a success. G-AJXW was dismantled at Rearsby and the registration cancelled in February 1949.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster Model P Avis Mk 1 G-AJXW in Class B markings at the 1947 SBAC show at Radlett.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-12 / R.Riding - Auster's whie elephant

VL522 at the 1948 SBAC Show at Farnborough in September with the Auster Avis in the background.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Auster A.2/45 / Model M - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1946

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The prototype Autocar performing at the 1949 SBAC Show at Farnborough, just days after its first flight.

Aeroplane Monthly 1977-09 / A.Hitchman - Auster ancestry (1)

The prototype Auster J5B Autocar, G-AJYK, lasted a year before

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The prototype Autocar photographed with a standard four-seater car of the period.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

This view of the prototype Auster J/5B Autocar shows clearly the hump-backed appearance of this four-seater.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Early 1950 photograph of the second production Auster J/5B Autocar. In February 1957 it was sold in Spain and became EC-ANK.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v2

Auster J/5B Autocar.

Aeroplane Monthly 1991-12 / Personal album. Civil

Auster J/5B Autocar PH-NEH at Rotterdam circa 1960. From 1952 until 1972 it was operated by the Technische Hogeschool at Delft.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The prototype J/5F Aiglet Trainer G-AMKF in Class B marks at Rearsby in 1951.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Another view of the prototype Auster J/5F Aiglet Trainer G-AMKF. After a brief spell in the UK ’KF was sold in Australia in January 1952 and became VH-AFS.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Dramatic view of Auster J/5F Aiglet Trainer G-AMMS, in which Auster test pilot Ranald Porteous gave many memorable demonstration flights in the Fifties. When fitted with a Gipsy Major 10 'MS became an Auster J/5L. Once owned by comedian Jimmy Edwards, this Aiglet was later owned by film director Keith Ewart and based at Elstree.

Aeroplane Monthly 1977-10 / A.Hitchman - Auster ancestry (2)

This Auster J-5F Aiglet Trainer was later converted to a J-5K. For two years its pilot was comedian Jimmy Edwards, but for many years it was flown by Keith Ewart at Elstree.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v2

Auster Aiglet Trainer.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Dramatic view of Auster J/5F Aiglet Trainer G-AMMS, in which Auster test pilot Ranald Porteous gave many memorable demonstration flights in the Fifties.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Tom Hay how’s famous J/5F Aiglet Trainer snapped in April 1952 over Elstree.

Aviation Historian 29 / S.Sumbodo - Garuda's 'Hamble Boys'

Auster J/5F Aiglet Trainer G-AMUI is prepared for a training flight outside the distinctive hangar at Hamble. The Indonesian Pensip 2 students gained their instrument ratings for their CPLs on Aiglet Trainers at AST in mid-1952, before graduating on to the de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk.

Air Pictorial 1958-02

Last picture of the ill-fated Aiglet Trainer, AP-AJN, c/n. 3145, taken at Eastleigh prior to delivery on 10/5/57. This aircraft has just been cancelled from the current Pakistan register.

Air Enthusiast 2006-05 / D.Willis - Military Auster A to Z /Production and industry/ (3)

On a pre-delivery test flight, W4104 was one of 17 Auster J/5F Aiglet Trainers delivered to the Royal Pakistan Air Force.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

View of an unmarked Auster J/5F Aiglet Trainer. The shorter-span wings and wider fuselage are apparent. Porteous is the pilot in these 1952 photographs.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Pest Control’s J/5G Cirrus Autocar G-AMOY at Sion in Switzerland in 1953. It was one of three flown out to control the maybug.

Мировая Авиация 35

В Великобритании осталось всего несколько J-5G Autocar. Он имел более мощный двигатель и предназначался для опыления полей в жарком климате.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Cirrus Autocar AP-AHJ seen at Elstree shortly after its arrival there in the winter of 1960-61. It subsequently became G-ARKG.

Air Pictorial 1956-11

Auster Autocar XJ941, formerly G-ANVN, now in service with the R.A.F.

Air Enthusiast 2006-05 / D.Willis - Military Auster A to Z /Production and industry/ (3)

With the ‘NW’ tailcode for its RANAS Nowra home base, A11-300 was one of two J/5G Autocars acquired for the RAN in 1953.

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-06 / ??? - Panto-based Autocar

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-06 / ??? - Panto-based Autocar

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-06 / ??? - Panto-based Autocar

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Cirrus Autocar G-AMZV was fitted with a Saro experimental hydro-ski undercarriage.

Air Enthusiast 2007-05 / Round-Out

Auster J/5G G-AMZV during trials on the Solent in 1958 with the hydro-ski undercarriage developed by Saunders-Roe

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-06 / ??? - Panto-based Autocar

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-06 / ??? - Panto-based Autocar

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-06 / ??? - Panto-based Autocar

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-03 / L.Leetham - Auster notes

G-AJYL making light work of various obstacles including jerry-cans, baulks of timber and a concrete-filled tin normally used as a picketing weight.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-03 / L.Leetham - Auster notes

The extraordinary Bonmartini tracked undercarriage inflight, attached to Auster J/5 G-AJYL. A tailwheel skid guard was fitted to protect the stern frames from damage during manoeuvres over rough ground.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster Aiglet G-AMYI was fitted with a 155 h.p. Cirrus Major engine and became the second J/5K variant.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster J/5L Aiglet Trainer G-ANXC was built in 1955 and was later converted to a J/5R Alpine. Following a period with Crop Culture (Aerial) Ltd, XC was sold in Uganda in 1959 and became VP-UBD.

Air Pictorial 1956-01 / The journal of a roving spotter

An old friend in new guise, G-ANXC was flown during November as a J-5R Alpine with a long-span wing as shown. It is better known as the Aiglet demonstrator.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-01 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster Aiglet G-APVG being demonstrated at the 1959 Farnborough SBAC Show.

Aviation Historian 29 / E.Wild - Say Cheese! (1)

Another of the Elstree-based aircraft the author flew was Auster J/5P Autocar G-AOFM.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-03 / ??? - Check mates

Auster J-5P Autocar was registered in Austria as OE-DBC in 1956. The J-5P was powered by a D.H. Gipsy Major 10 Mk 1 and 23 were built by Austers at Rearsby.

Air Pictorial 1956-07 / Air Pictorial's photo-review

AUSTRIAN AUTOCAR OE-DBC is a J/5P, seating four. Photographed recently at Southend. Will be used for glider-towing - note bar above tailwheel. Tail has Austrian national markings of red, white, red. Engine is 145-h .p. D.H. Gipsy Major 10, Mk. 2.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-11 / B.Elliott - The flying squad (2)

The AA’s Auster J/5R Alpine was once used by the Metropolitan Police for an unofficial flight at the Epsom Races.

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-03 / B.Elliott - Above, the law (2)

The AA’s appropriately-registered Auster J/5R Alpine was delivered to the Association at Fairoaks in the summer of 1956. It was used as a radio relay station in conjunction with radio-equipped road service vehicles.

Air Pictorial 1988-01 / G.Roberts - The A.A. - Courtesy and Care

A.A.'s first aircraft. Auster J-5R Alpine G-APAA, which served 1956-58.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster J/5R Alpine G-APAA was delivered to the Automobile Association during the summer of 1956.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The Auster J/5V Auto­car, with 180 h.p. Lycoming engine, became a development prototype for the D-series Austers/Beagles.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-04 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster J/5V Autocar G-APUW, smartened up with fibreglass spats and powered by a 160 h.p. Lycoming.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1984-01

Kuwaiti Air Power in 1961 was a section of Austers and helicopters that served the Police and other authorities

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-01 / L.Leetham - Austers ahoy! (2)

G-AJYL during crop dusting trials in 1950.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-01 / L.Leetham - Austers ahoy! (2)

G-AJYL during crop dusting trials in 1950.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-01 / L.Leetham - Austers ahoy! (2)

Auster J/5 G-AJYL pictured at Beaumaris, Anglesey in early 1951 during handling trials to obtain ARB approval under the supervision of Geoffrey Tyson.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-01 / L.Leetham - Austers ahoy! (2)

An engine run before launching G-AJYL for the first test. Nev Reid is at the tail and the author is by the beaching trolley. Inset, no seagulls flying but plenty of “Flung spray and blown spume”, as John Masefield would have described this scene of 'YL taxying in rough water.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-01 / L.Leetham - Austers ahoy! (2)

G-AJYL with twin water-rudders retracted for launching. The author, near the port float, is helping to ease away the beaching trolleys. Because of the buoyancy of the tyres the aircraft needed a strong downward push to keep them clear of the float keels.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-01 / L.Leetham - Austers ahoy! (2)

Ready for the fray. The beaching trolleys are clear at last and everyone struggles to keep the heels of the floats clear of the slipway until the aircraft is pushed into deeper water.

Air Pictorial 1955-09 / Air Pictorial's photo-review

This Auster Autocar float plane is operated by A/B Stockholms Aero. The engine is a 155. h.p. Cirrus Major 3.

Air Enthusiast 2006-05 / D.Willis - Military Auster A to Z /Production and industry/ (3)

New Zealand used at least three of its Auster J/5s to train future flying-boat pilots. In addition to the floats, the aircraft were equipped with a small fin under the rear fuselage.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The fin and rudder area of the Autocar (right) was considerably more than that of the Autocrat.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

In 1965 Vivian Bellamy re-engined Autocrat G-AGVI with a Rover TP.90 gas turbine engine.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1966 / 09 - Addenda

Auster Autocrat re-engined experimentally with Rover T.P.90 turboprop

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

In 1965 Vivian Bellamy re-engined Autocrat G-AGVI with a Rover TP.90 gas turbine engine. The 188 h.p. engine gave the aged Auster a level speed of 115 m.p.h. at 2,000ft.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1983-04

Kemble airfield in the early 1950s with Lancasters and Lincolns present in numbers. Taken from the north, this view shows a Type C and two Type D hangars at top left and another pair of Type Ds at the bottom. Spread around the right half of the photograph are six Type Ls. The control tower, with Auster alongside, is isolated on the airfield.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Avro Lancaster / Type 683 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1941Avro Lincoln / Type 694 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1944

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The controls and instruments, followed general Auster practice. The rear fuselage was 8in wider than that of the Autocrat. (Auster J/5B Autocar)

Air Enthusiast 2003-09 / Round-Out

A recent arrival at Brisbane's Airfield Airport was Auster VH-KSK which has a long history of operations in Australia and its territories

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / M.Oakey, T.Harmsworth - News

AUSTER Autocrat G-AJEM is now being reassembled following a ground-up restoration in Bryn Jones's workshop at Saundersfoot in Southwest Wales. Every item has been stripped during the rebuild, all nuts, bolts and split-pins are new, and new engine mounts have been installed for the Cirrus Minor 2A.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-06 / Rearsby /Gone but not forgotten/ (13)

Victims of the gale that hit Rearsby on March 17, 1947, were Autocrat G-AIBY and the Taylorcraft Plus D G-AHCH, both seen here on the roof of the Auster D.O.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Taylorcraft Auster - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1939

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Autocrat G-AIZU survived a further 18yr following this 1951 incident at Broxbourne, caused by landing with the brakes on.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Autocrat G-AJEI survived this minor mishap in the Forties and is currently airworthy.

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-02 / Skywriters

The Preservation profile on Auster J/1 Autocrat ZK-AUX brought back many memories of days at Bowling Green Lane around the time that Temple Press bought G-AERO. I was on the editorial staff there throughout the time the Autocrat was the company “hack” - writing for The Aeroplane Spotter until mid-1948 and thereafter for The Aeroplane. It is interesting to identify the five occupants of G-AERO depicted by Chris Wren in his Oddentification cartoon (although, of course, the Autocrat could only carry three - two side-by-side with dual controls and an uncomfortable little seat athwartships in the rear of the cabin).

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

The Auster V Series J/1 Autocrat.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-12 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The E. J. Riding scale drawing appears by kind permission of Aeromodeller.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The scale drawing of the Autocar is reproduced by kind permission of Aeromodeller

Air Pictorial 1958-08 / ??? - The Auster Workmaster

The Auster Workmaster

Air Pictorial 1959-09 / Farnborough Directory

AUSTER AIGLET: No newcomer to Farnborough, the Aiglet Trainer maintains its position as the most popular British light aircraft. Exported in substantial numbers, it is powered by a 145-h.p. de Havilland Gipsy Major 10 engine. Dimensions are: Span 32 ft.; length 23 ft. 2 in.; height 6 It. 6 in.; wing area 164 sq. ft.