Avro Tudor - Variants

Variants

All except the prototype built by Avro at their Chadderton factory and assembled and test flown from Woodford Aerodrome.

688 Tudor 1

Production variant, 12 built, later conversion to other variants.

689 Tudor 2

Stretched version, five built.

688 Tudor 3

Tudor 1 modified by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft as executive transport aircraft. It could seat up to nine passengers, two built.

688 Tudor 4

Stretched version of the Tudor 1 (but not the same as the Tudor 2 with the fuselage lengthened by only 6 ft/1.83 m). It could seat up to 32 passengers, 11 built.

688 Tudor 4B

As Tudor 4 but retained the Tudor 1's flight engineers station. Small number of Tudor 1s were converted into Tudor 4Bs.

689 Tudor 5

Tudor 2 for BSAA, powered by four 1,770 hp (1,320 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 621 piston engines, six built. One aircraft crashed in 1950 killing 80 in the Llandow Air Disaster.

689 Tudor 6

Ordered by the Argentinian airline FAMA, but the order was cancelled. None of the airframes were completed.

689 Tudor 7

Tudor 2 fitted with four 1,750 hp (1,305 kW) Bristol Hercules 120 radial piston engines, one prototype only.

688 Tudor 8

Jet-engined version of the Tudor 1. Tudor 1 VX195 was fitted with four Rolls-Royce Derwent Mk.V turbojet engines.

Tudor 9

Jet-engined version of the Tudor 2, became the 706 Ashton

Super Trader 4B

Re-engined version, fitted with four 1,760 hp (1,312 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 23 piston engines.

Tudor Freighter 1

Freight and cargo version, three aircraft were used by BOAC during the 1949 Berlin Airlift.

711 Trader

Proposed freighter development of the Tudor 2 fitted with a tricycle landing gear; not built.