The Short S.16 Scion was a 1930s British twin-engined, high-wing cantilever monoplane built by Short Brothers and, under licence, by Pobjoy Airmotors and Aircraft at Rochester in Kent between 1933 and 1937. It carried a pilot and five or six passengers in an enclosed cabin and was powered by Pobjoy radial engines, and it was built as a landplane or as a floatplane. Altogether 22 Scions and Scion IIs were built, serving small airstrips and water courses in Europe, the Near and Middle East, Sierra Leone, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Many were impressed into the Royal Air Force in the Second World War for pilot ferry, anti-aircraft co-operation and radar calibration work.
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were 1930s British two-engine, cantilever monoplanes built by Short Brothers
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were 1930s British two-engine, cantilever monoplanes built by Short Brothers
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1. Aviastar.org Virtual Aircraft Museum: Short Scion
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Short decided that there was a need for an inexpensive light transport landplane
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2 x 90hp de Havilland Niagara III piston engines
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were 1930s British two-engine, cantilever monoplanes built by Short Brothers
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The first flight of the prototype aircraft (G-ACJI) took place on 18 August 1933
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