Aircraft · United Kingdom · 1936-1945
Avro Anson
trainer / coastal patrol
Originally a coastal reconnaissance aircraft, the twin-engined Anson was quickly outclassed but became indispensable as the standard multi-engine crew trainer of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, teaching tens of thousands of pilots, navigators and wireless operators from Canada to Australia before they moved on to operational bombers.
| crew | 3-4 |
|---|---|
| top speed | 303 km/h |
| role | navigation/gunnery trainer |
| produced | 11,020 (8,138 in Britain) |
