Air International 1997-01 / B.Butt - Ready to Serve. Hong Kong's Government Flying Service

Auster Mk 6s display the HKAAF’s ‘Winged Dragon’ insignia on their cowlings in this formation flight over the New Territories in 1955.

Air Enthusiast 2006-01 / D.Willis - Military Auster A to Z /Production and industry/ (1)

The AOP.VI prototype was TJ707, here in August 1945. The variant mated the more powerful Gipsy Major VII powerplant to the Auster Mk. V's airframe with separate aerofoil flaps.

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TJ707 was converted from a Mk.V and tested at Boscombe Down in August 1945.

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The Arab Legion Air Force operated four different Auster variants - A-406 was one of four Mk.6s.

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

Auster A0P.6.

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The Mk.6 (VF484, right) and Mk.9 (WZ679, left) were the main variants transferred from the RAF to the AAC when it took over responsibility for the light aircraft fleet.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Auster AOP.9 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1954

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Canada's Auster AOP.6s reportedly had a longer undercarriage than aircraft built for the RAF. Like the majority of the country's Austers, 16657 did not display roundels on its fuselage sides.

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

The Auster VI Light Liaison and Observation Monoplane (145 h.p. D.H. Gipsy-Major VII engine).

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AOP.6 TW562 served with 43 OTU at Andover from new in 1946 until February 1949.

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The majority of the Mk.6s with the regular AOP flights and squadrons carried no code markings, but examples used for communications did. VF620 has a message hook stowed under the rear fuselage. (Or perhaps glider hook? - ed)

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Belgium’s Auster AOP.6s were operated in either a silver scheme - as seen on A6 - or a green and brown camouflage.

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'Gipsy Major Austers' were flown by the SAAF until the mid-1960s - 5410 was one of five delivered to the union.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-01 / F.Adkin - Six Six Three - AOP (1)

Capt Gooding running up No 1951 Flight’s Auster A.O.P.6 VX121 at Ringway in 1956.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster AOP.6 VX113 at Baginton on July 11, 1959 where, in the hands of Capt N. Baldwick, it was flown into 5th place in the Kings Cup race.

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VF661 was based at Aldergrove in Northern Ireland and used on anti-terrorist patrols. It was equipped with the modified exhaust system fitted to some Mk.6 and most T.7s.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-09 / R.Britton - "In trying circumstances"

Auster AOP.6 TW535 fitted шт 1955 with two 100W loudspeakers for “sky-shouting", spoken propaganda or warnings from the air, effectively carried out by Valettas in Malaya.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-09 / R.Britton - "In trying circumstances"

Auster AOP.6 WJ374 of 656 Sqn. It ended its days at Noble Field, Malaya after skidding into a ditch on landing in January 1954.

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Alongside the T.7 trainers, AOP.6s (including VF661) were used by 227 (Air Observation Post) Conversion Unit, the successor to 227 OCU, to train future AOP pilots. Later, it served in Northern Ireland.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-02 / F.Adkin - Six Six Three - AOP (2)

Another view of A.O.P.6 TW568 on exercise over Salisbury Plain.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-02 / F.Adkin - Six Six Three - AOP (2)

A nice low-level air-to-air photograph of Auster A.O.P.6 TW568 taken during a training exercise in Wiltshire in July 1952.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-09 / R.Britton - "In trying circumstances"

Auster AOP.6 TW568 on a low-level training flight from Middle Wallop in July 1952 over the Salisbury Plain area. The photograph was taken from an accompanying Tiger Moth and must be one of the lowest air-to-air views ever taken.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-01 / F.Adkin - Six Six Three - AOP (1)

A very low level air-to-air shot of a Middle Wallop Auster A.O.P.6 taken during a training exercise near Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire in July 1952.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-09 / R.Britton - "In trying circumstances"

An AOP.6 demonstrates how messages and supplies could be dropped - not all contact with ground forces could be maintained by radio.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-08 / D.Sparkes - Lost weekend

Capt N. Baldwick ahead of another Auster in his Army Auster 6. Baldwick averaged a creditable 125 m.p.h. in the Osram Cup race and was placed first.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-02 / F.Adkin - Six Six Three - AOP (2)

Auster A.O.P.6 VX118 was later converted to an Auster 6A Tugmaster and registered G-ASNB. It is seen here operating from a sand airstrip at Gurji, Tripolitania, in 1958.

Aeroplane Monthly 1980-12 / Plane Crazy

An Auster AOP VI of the Light Aircraft School, Middle Wallop, July 1952.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-01 / F.Adkin - Six Six Three - AOP (1)

Some idea of the Auster A.O.P.6's short landing capabilities is evident from this photograph of TW568 lobbing onto an aerodrome perimeter track, July 1952.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-01 / F.Adkin - Six Six Three - AOP (1)

An A.O.P.6 demonstrates the technique of small field landing. Note the landing T indicating the wind direction.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-01 / F.Adkin - Six Six Three - AOP (1)

Auster A.O.P.6 VW996 was later converted to a T.10.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-02 / F.Adkin - Six Six Three - AOP (2)

A.O.P.s in a rural setting during a break in flying.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-02 / F.Adkin - Six Six Three - AOP (2)

The sad line-up of departing Austers at Ringway in February 1957.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-09 / M.Hardy - All the Queen's forces (1)

Trainers assembled at Odiham a few days before the Review, showing Austers, Chipmunks, Harvards, Provosts, Balliols and Prentices. Note that all canopies are covered over.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Boulton Paul Balliol / P.108 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1947De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk - КанадаCanada - 1946Hunting Percival Provost / P.56 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1953North American T-6 Texan / AT-6 Harvard - СШАUSA - 1935Percival Prentice - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1946

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-08 / R.Riding - Middle Wallop 1938-1982

The picture was taken in July 1952 and shows the Auster 6s and Tiger Moths of the Army Light Aircraft School in the foreground. In the background can be seen the Spitfire LF XIVs of No 288 Sqn and several Oxfords.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Airspeed Oxford / AS.10 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1937De Havilland Tiger Moth / D.H.82 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1931Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX / XVI - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1942

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-09 / R.Britton - "In trying circumstances"

A line-up of Tiger Moths and AOP Austers of the Light Aircraft School at Middle Wallop in July 1952, at the time that the author was doing his basic training.

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

Air Pictorial 1977-06

Auster 6A G-ARHM, Cranfield-based, visited Finmere 6/3/77 after a two-year rebuild;

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster 6A Tugmaster G-ASIP, ex VF608, was converted during the winter of 1963-64 and spent most of its life with the Bristol Gliding Club at Nympsfield.

Air Pictorial 1958-10

Мировая Авиация 59

Изображенный на снимке Auster AOP.Mk 6 готовится к перевозке самолетом Hastings из 511-й эскадрильи. Он оснащался громкоговорителями и использовался для психологических операций.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Handley Page Hastings / H.P.67 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1946

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AOP.Mk.6 VF618 was equipped with a modified undercarriage arrangement and skis. What can readers tell us of its ship-borne use?

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

A Royal Artillery Auster lands on a British carrier during the assault on Rangoon, 1945.

Air Enthusiast 2000-03 / J.Lyzun - From Warhorse to Workhorse

FM208 was the prototype XN model seen here at a Trenton air show. The unit designator, 'HW-' is unknown but is probably associated with the Central Flying School. Below the wing is Auster AOP.6 16663.

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

Aviation Historian 36 / N.Stroud - Canada's ice patrol

Another photo of CF-KAD having its engines run up. The proximity of civilianised former RCAF Auster AOP.6 CF-NQC lends substance to the possibility that the series of photographs was taken at Downsview, as the Auster was based there during 1962-70.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-4 / C-54 / R5D Skymaster - СШАUSA - 1942

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

Auster AOP.6 TW524 fitted with Auster-designed skis - these were all-metal and had a Bakelite under-skin to stop freezing and cut down snow drag. This Auster later became G-ARDX.

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

Auster AOP.6 TW524 demonstrating the Bonmartini undercarriage to MOS and AOP representatives at Leicester East in mid-1951.

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

A closer view of the tracked wheels fitted to Auster AOP.6 TW524, over-running chocks during pre-demonstration checks. Note the small castor oil tank behind the forward wheel, and the weight-saving cutaway wheelrims.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-12 / L.Leetham - Austers ahoy! (1)

This photograph of Auster VI VF517 clearly shows the built-in water rudders and the rather shorter auxiliary or ventral fin, finishing in line with the sternpost. Civil versions built later had this fin extended well past the rudder hinges. The Gipsy III-powered prototype is seen on its beaching gear.

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Floatplane Mk.6 VF517 served only with the MAEE. It was wrecked at Felixstowe on August 7, 1947.

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VX127 was one of two modified Auster AOP.Mk.6s used to support the 1949 British-Scandinavian Antarctic Expedition.

Aeroplane Monthly 1989-12 / L.Leetham - Austers ahoy! (1)

The author's first brush with the nautical. He fitted the float modification at the Saunders-Roe works at Cowes.

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The Auster S was offered as a replacement for the AOP.6, although it is best thought of as a link between the variant and the Mk.9. The obvious difference from the Mk.6 was the Bombardier 702 engine.

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

The Auster “S” prototype WJ316 powered by a Cirrus Bombardier, seen at Rearsby in 1951.

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

Auster Model S WJ316, powered by a Cirrus Bombardier, was a private-venture type which was never taken up by the RAF.

Air Pictorial 1991-10 / Airshow Review

Auster T.7 WE569 (G-ASAJ), nearest the camera, follows AOP.6 TW536 (G-BNGE) during a training sortie over the Hampshire countryside prior to AOP 50.

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On a pre-delivery test flight, WE613 was one of the 77 T.7s delivered to the RAF (including two Model C4s).
Auster T.7 WE613 was one of 77 two-seat dual control trainer variants of the AOP6 supplied to the RAF.

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The Antarctic T.Mk.7(Mod)s differed externally from the standard aircraft by having a universal undercarriage for wheels, skis or floats, and a radome for direction-finding equipment above the cabin. (WE563 illustrated, later became NZ1707 of the RNZAF).

Air Pictorial 1955-12 / Air Pictorial's photo-review

One of two specially modified all-yellow Auster A.O.P. Mk.7s which are now on M.V. Theron heading towards the Antarctic.They will be used on the joint U.K./N.Z./Australian and South African trans-Antarctic expedition.

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

Auster T.7.

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As the T.Mk.7 was identical to the AOP.6, except for the provision for dual controls, it could be used operationally. WE591 in company with US Army Cessna L-19 Bird Dogs and Bell OH-13 Sioux.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Bell H-13 Sioux / Model 47 - СШАUSA - 1945Cessna L-19 / O-1 Bird dog / Model 305 - СШАUSA - 1950

Air Pictorial 1991-10 / Airshow Review

Two Auster T.7s lined up on the grass at Middle Wallop for AOP 50. The nearest aircraft VF526 has just completed a total rebuild by Ron Eastman, engineer with the Museum of Army Flying.

Air Pictorial 1957-01

Shipped to Antarctica on board the research vessel Magga Dan - which left London on 15th November 1956 were the orange-and-black-painted de Havilland DHC-3 Otter (XL710) and the orange Auster AOP Mk. 7 (WE600). The latter accompanied the Antarctica expedition of the last winter.

Air Pictorial 1957-09

"Deep-Freeze" aircraft are in the news and these photographs, Auster (photo) and Beaver, come from reader D. P. Woodhall, of New Zealand.

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The prototype Auster T.7 VF665 on display at the SBAC airshow at Farnborough in 1948. It was later drastically modified as the Marshall MA.4.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-05 / M.Marsh - 200,000 perforations

VF665 began life as an Auster AOP.6 but became the prototype T.7 in 1948 and remained with Auster until 1961 engaged upon development work.
Auster AOP.7 VF665 in which L.Leetham had spinning trials in 1951. VF665 later became the Marshall MA.4.

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The prototype Auster T.7 VF665 was used as a trials aircraft for most of its existence, including assessing the Bonmartini undercarriage.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-11 / ??? - Sea boots

One of the two Auster T.7s, WE600, fitted with floats and used on the Trans Antarctic Expedition in 1956, at Husvik Harbour, South Georgia.

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The sole Model H training glider.

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

Beagle A.61 Terrier 1 G-ATHU, Originally an Auster Mk 7; NEVILLE CHADWICK

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Beagle A.61 Series 2 Terrier (145 hp de Havilland Gipsy Major 10 engine)

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

Beagle Terrier Series 2.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The second Terrier 2, an improved version which featured a more luxurious interior, glassfibre spats, Fairey-Reed metal propeller and a ventral silencer. G-ARRN was withdrawn from use in June 1962.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

Auster AOP.6 VX113 transformed into a Beagle Terrier and registered G-ARNO in early 1962. The aircraft is currently under restoration.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-05 / Beagle A.61 Terrier 2 G-ATDN/TW641 /Preservation Profile/

TW641 after conversion to Terrier 2 standard.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-05 / Beagle A.61 Terrier 2 G-ATDN/TW641 /Preservation Profile/

TW641 after conversion to Terrier 2 standard.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-04 / R.Riding - The sky was his studio

Charles Brown getting comfortable in a Terrier.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-03 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

Beagle A.61 Terrier 2 G-ASDK has been painstakingly rebuilt over the last 3yr by Lee Mullins at Shefford, Beds. He has just sold it to M. L. Rose of Derby, who will add the final touches before the aircraft receives a fresh C of A.

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-05 / Beagle A.61 Terrier 2 G-ATDN/TW641 /Preservation Profile/

Aeroplane Monthly 1983-05 / Beagle A.61 Terrier 2 G-ATDN/TW641 /Preservation Profile/

The photograph shows the aircraft in its current status, after restoration by the boys from Skinners School, Tunbridge Wells and by members of 39 Signals (TA) Tunbridge Wells.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / M.Jerram - For Business and Pleasure

The simple, clear instrument panel of the Beagle Terrier.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-09 / R.Britton - "In trying circumstances"

Two views of the author’s damaged Auster, VF501, being readied for its return to base by road. Note the damage to the engine cowling after the propeller sheared off in flight.

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

663 (AOP) Squadron Auster A.O.P.VI from Hooton after coming to grief at Afon Goch in October 1956. A Royal Auxiliary Air Force unit, No 663 (AOP) Sqn moved into Hooton in 1949.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-08 / D.Sparkes - Lost weekend

The author’s painting of Capt Baldwick’s Auster 6 heading out over Rock Farm on the first leg of the short course, hotly pursued by John Hill in Tipsy Belfair G-AFJR.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Tipsy B / BC - БельгияBelgium - 1937

Air Pictorial 1961-10

The BEAGLE Terrier - training touring aeroplane seating two or three people.