Hawker Horsley

The Hawker Horsley was a British single-engined biplane bomber of the 1920s, the last all-wooden aircraft built by Hawker. It served the Royal Air Force as a medium day bomber and torpedo bomber between 1926 and 1935, and also served with the navies of Greece and Denmark. Named after Sir Thomas Sopwith's home, Horsley Towers, it was designed to Air Ministry Specification 26/23 around a Rolls-Royce Condor engine, and the prototype first flew at Brooklands in March 1925. It was a two-bay biplane with a crew of two, carrying bombs or a torpedo, and metal construction was introduced during production, giving the Mk I all-wood, Mk II mixed and an unofficial Mk III all-metal version. In total 124 were built, including six for Greece and two Dantorps for Denmark.