Shapley Kittiwake
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Template:Wikidata image| Kittiwake | |
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| Role | Two-seat gull wing monoplaneTemplate:Short description |
| National origin | United Kingdom |
| Manufacturer | Shapley Aircraft Limited |
| Designer | Errol Spencer Shapley |
| First flight | 1937 |
| Produced | 1937–1938 |
| Number built | 2 |
The Shapley Kittiwake is a 1930s British two-seat gull wing monoplane designed and built by Errol Spencer Shapley at Torquay, Devon.
Development
The Kittiwake was a monoplane with a gull wing and a fixed landing gear.[1] The first aircraft, a Mark 1 registered G-AEZN,[2] with a single-seat open cockpit was powered by a 50 hp (37 kW) Continental A50 piston engine and first flown at Roborough in June 1937, but was damaged in a crash landing later that year.[3] The second aircraft, a Mark 2 registered G-AFRP,[4] was a larger two-seat cabin monoplane powered by a 90 hp (67 kW) Pobjoy Niagara III engine and first flown at Roborough in 1938.
The Mark 1 aircraft was dismantled before the Second World War.[5] The Mark 2 was stored during the war only to crash on Dartmoor in December 1946.[5]
Specifications (Mark 2)
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General characteristics
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References
Notes
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- ↑ UK Civil Aviation Authority Aircraft Register G-AEZN
- ↑ Ord-Hume 1976, p. 684.
- ↑ UK Civil Aviation Authority Aircraft Register G-AFRP
- ↑ a b c Jackson 1974, p. 296
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