Avro Manchester
Sign in to saveAlso known as Manchester aircraft, Manchester, Avro 679 Manchester, Avro 679
Second World War British heavy bomber
Key facts
- Type
- Heavy bomber
- National origin
- United Kingdom
- Manufacturer
- Avro
- Primary users
- Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force
- Manufactured
- 1940–1941
- Introduction date
- November 1940
- First flight
- 25 July 1939
- Developed into
- Avro Lancaster
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- heavy bomber
- Named after
- Manchester
- Operator
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Developer
- Avro
- Manufacturer
- Avro
- Image
- Avro Manchester.jpg
- Height
- 5.94
- Length
- 21.34
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- powered by
- Rolls-Royce Vulture
- first flight
- 1939-07-25
- Commons category
- Avro Manchester
- total produced
- 202
- service retirement
- 1942-00-00
- wingspan
- 27.46
- maximum operating altitude
- 5852
- vehicle range
- 1930
- service entry
- 1940-11-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Avro 679 Manchester was a British twin-engine heavy bomber developed and manufactured by the Avro aircraft company in the United Kingdom. While not being built in great numbers, it was the forerunner of the more famed and more successful four-engined Avro Lancaster, which was one of the most capable strategic bombers of the Second World War.
Avro designed the Manchester in conformance with the requirements laid out by the British Air Ministry Specification P.13/36, which sought a capable medium bomber with which to equip the Royal Air Force (RAF) and to replace its twin-engine bombers, such as the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, Handley Page Hampden and Vickers Wellington. Performing its maiden flight on 25 July 1939, the Manchester entered squadron service in November 1940, just over twelve months after the outbreak of the war.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Avro Manchester” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.