Avro 504 pleasure flights

[Flying10uk]

No, she flew fairly regularly, for a time, in the 1920,s and I still have her flying helmet and googles. I also have the car member's badge of the flying club that she belonged to. She wasn't a pilot but her brother was; they never flew together so that they wouldn't both be killed in the same accident.

I thought that people here may be interested to see the photograph and that is why I posted it. This Avro 504 is unusual in that it was converted to carry 2 passengers.

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[browningautorifle]

Avro 504

AV Roe (AVRO) company was located in Toronto area and was in action until shut down by a desperate government here...too bad, we were actually making serviceable aircraft. As demonstrated above.

[GeeRam]

No, she flew fairly regularly, for a time, in the 1920,s and I still have her flying helmet and googles. I also have the car member's badge of the flying club that she belonged to. She wasn't a pilot but her brother was; they never flew together so that they wouldn't both be killed in the same accident.

I thought that people here may be interested to see the photograph and that is why I posted it. This Avro 504 is unusual in that it was converted to carry 2 passengers.

Avro did make a couple of prototype versions in the 20's to carry 2 pax (one version with an enclosed cabin for the 2 x pax) so civilian adaptions to do the same was probably quite common.
Its amazing that the 504 continued in production until 1932...!!

And a handful of them were still in RAF service when WW2 started...!!

Fabulous story about your Grandmother as well, and that you have her flying helmet etc