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Test Flight
‘Test Flight’ is the title for this Avro Tutor being waiting for its next training flight.
The Avro Tutor was designed as a replacement for the Avro 504 trainer. The Tutor entered service with the RAF in 1933 and from 1933-36, Tutors from the Central Flying School were famed for their impressive formation aerobatic displays. Tutors were also used throughout the RAF as elementary training aircraft. K3215 was civilianised as G-AHSA. It was built as part of the RAF's main production batch in 1933 and served with the RAF College at Cranwell After this it was purchased by the Shuttleworth Collection and restored to airworthy condition. K3215 is now the sole surviving example of the Avro Tutor worldwide.
Test Flight
‘Test Flight’ is the title for this Avro Tutor being waiting for its next training flight.
The Avro Tutor was designed as a replacement for the Avro 504 trainer. The Tutor entered service with the RAF in 1933 and from 1933-36, Tutors from the Central Flying School were famed for their impressive formation aerobatic displays. Tutors were also used throughout the RAF as elementary training aircraft. K3215 was civilianised as G-AHSA. It was built as part of the RAF's main production batch in 1933 and served with the RAF College at Cranwell After this it was purchased by the Shuttleworth Collection and restored to airworthy condition. K3215 is now the sole surviving example of the Avro Tutor worldwide.