Avro 619 Five

The Avro 619 Five was a small three-engined British high-wing passenger aeroplane designed by Roy Chadwick and his team at Avro and shown at the Olympia Aero Show in London in July 1929 beside the larger Avro 618 Ten. Its name came from its capacity of four passengers plus the pilot. The prototype carried three Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major engines, one in the nose and two on the wings, and was sold at the show to Wilson Airways of Nairobi, which flew it in Kenya. The same customer later bought a second aircraft. A third Five went to Queensland Air Navigation in Australia, and the fourth stayed with Avro as a demonstrator and was withdrawn from the 1930 King's Cup Race after proving unsuited to it. Four were built in all. The demonstrator later passed to Wilson Airways and was destroyed in a crash landing on 18 January 1932. A mail-plane development, the Avro 628, was probably dropped at the design stage.