Operational History
Some thirty examples were built in England, with licences acquired by Focke-Wulf to produce it in Germany (as the C.20) and by Lioré et Olivier in France (as the C.21), although no actual French production took place.
Initially, all fifteen C.19 Mk IVPs appeared on the British civil register. One was used in an attempted flight to South Africa, although it only made it to Tunis. Later, it flew with Alan Cobham's Circus. Another went to an autogiro flying school at London Air Park, Hanworth. Several machines were re-registered abroad: Australia, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain (one for the Spanish Air Force) and Sweden.
During the early 1930s, the Royal Air Force operated two C.19 Mk IIIs for evaluation of the autogiro concept (serials K1696 and K1948).
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