List of Avro Anson operators explained

This List of Avro Anson operators is a list of users who flew and operated the Avro Anson.

Military operators

Afghanistan: Royal Afghan Air Force – 13 Anson 18 aircraft were delivered to the Royal Afghan Air Force from 1948 and retired by 1972

Australia: Royal Australian Air Force – 1,028 Ansons were operated by the Royal Australian Air Force, retired in 1955

Belgium: Belgian Air Force (15 x Anson I, 2 x Anson 12s operated from 1946 to 1954)

Canada: Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy Ansons were retired in 1952

Czechoslovakian Air Force three aircraft, in service from 1945 to 1948

Egypt: Egyptian Air Force

Estonia: Estonian Air Force

Ethiopia: Ethiopian Air Force

Finland: Finnish Air Force three Avro Anson Mk. Is purchased 1936 and used as training and liaison aircraft. One lost and another written-off in accidents, last flight in 1947.^[1]

France: French Air Force and Aeronavale

Greece: Hellenic Royal Air Force: twelve Mk I Ansons were ordered in 1938 for the maritime patrol role. Five of these escaped to Egypt after the Battle of Greece and operated under British command until replaced by Blenheims in 1942.^[2]

India: Royal Indian Air Force^[3]

India

Indian Air Force

Iran: Imperial Iranian Air Force

Iraq: Royal Iraqi Air Force

Ireland: Irish Air Corps 9 Anson Mk1 delivered between 1937 and 1939 and used for training/maritime patrol/transport. 3 Anson 19s delivered in 1946 for training/transport. Mk1s retired by 1947, 19s by 1962.

Israel: Israeli Air Force

Netherlands: Royal Netherlands Air Force and Dutch Naval Aviation Service

New Zealand: Royal New Zealand Air Force

Norway: Royal Norwegian Air Force

Paraguay: Paraguayan Air Arm one Mk.V bought in Argentina in 1947.

Portugal: Portuguese Air Force

Royal Rhodesian Air Force

Saudi Arabia: Royal Saudi Air Force

South Africa: South African Air Force

Southern Rhodesian Air Force

Syria: Syrian Air Force

Turkey: Turkish Air Force

United Kingdom: Royal Air Force (Initial Establishment + Immediate Reserve)

T Mark. 20

T Mark. 21

T Mark. 22

Fleet Air Arm

Mark. I

Mark. II

• 745 Naval Air Squadron

Mark. V

• 743 Naval Air Squadron

Mark. C.X

• 701 Naval Air Squadron

Mark. C.XII

Mark. C.XIX

• 'X' Flight of 781 Naval Air Squadron

United States: 50 Canadian built Ansons were delivered to the USAAF as the AT-20.

Yugoslavia: SFR Yugoslav Air Force

Civilian operators

Argentina: At least six examples on the register known, mostly ex-Canadian, often with multiple owners, and multiple (Argentine) registrations

• LV-FBR, a new-build Avro 19Srs2, last recorded as damaged in an accident 14-10-1962
• LV-AGJ & LV-AGN, both SAETA (Servicios Aéreos Explotacion Transporte Aéreo), & other operators
• LV-ADI (unknown operator) briefly on the register, emergency landing 03/08/47 whilst on cargo flight, then passed on to FAP (Paraguay AF), wfu 1948
• LV-AGI ZONDA (Zonas Oeste y Norte de Aerolineas Argentinas), later IFTA (Instituto Fototopográfico Argentino) & re-registered LV-FBU, noted as damaged in accidents dated 1952, 1959 & 1963
• LV-GJA featured in an incident dated 19-03-1960, then to Brazil?

Australia:

• Woods Airways, WA (two surplus aircraft, 1948 to 1961)
• Brain & Brown Airfreighters (one Anson until at least 1977)
• East-West Airlines, one preserved (non-flying), at Tamworth Airport

Belgian Congo: three Belgium-registered ex RAF MkIs for Institut Geographique du Congo Belge

Brazil: at least nine ex-RCAF MkIIs,

• LATB Linha Aérea Transcontinental Brasileira - five aircraft,
• Companhia Meridional de Transportes - three aircraft operated between 1945 and 1946

Bahrain:

• Gulf Aviation

Cuba: a total of ten Canadian-built built Ansons have appeared on the Cuban register, three of which were operated by ANSA-Aerolíneas del Norte S.A. from 1947 until the mid-1950s

India

15 new-build aircraft; including 12 Mk18C for the new Directorate of Civil Aviation, and two Avro 19Srs2 for Bharat Airways, Calcutta (later merged into Indian Airlines)

Indonesia: Government of Indonesia chartered 2 Ansons during Indonesian National Revolution^[4]

Transportes Aéreos de Timor operated two Anson Is.^[5]

United Kingdom:

• Blue Line Airways (Nottingham) - three MkIs (1946–50)^[6]
• British European Airways 13-16 aircraft inherited from Railway Air Services & others, rapidly phased out (1947–50)^[7]
• British Midland / Derby Airways three (1955-65)^[8]
• Finglands Airways (Manchester) one MkI (1949–53)^[9]
• Hunting-Clan Air Transport Three Avro C19 Srs1 (1946-48)^[10]
• Imperial Airways - launch customer, two Avro 652 (1935–1939, both impressed into Fleet Air Arm 1941)
• Ministry of Civil Aviation (1948–54)
• Railway Air Services 14 aircraft (1945–47), most subsequently absorbed into British European Airways fleet
• Sivewright Airways (1946–51)^[11]
• Starways one Mk1 (1950)^[12]
• Transair (UK) up to 10 airworthy examples, plus five more used for spares, (1950–52)^[13]
• Wiltshire School of Flying (1954)^[14]

References

Bibliography

• Complete Civil Registers: 5: CR-T: Portuguese Timor . Archive . . 1982 . 2 . 32 . 0262-4923.
• Book: Heinonen . T. . Valtonen . H.. Albatrossista Pilatukseen – Suomen sotilaslentokoneet 1917–2010 . 2010 . . . 978-952-99989-2-0 . fi.
• Book: Sipos . Milos . Cooper . Tom . Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970 . 2020 . Helion & Company Publishing . Warwick, UK . 978-1-913118-74-7.
• Book: Sturtivant. Ray. The History of Britain's Military Training Aircraft . 1987 . Haynes Publishing Group. Sparkford, UK. 0-85429-579-8.
• Book: Sturtivant. Ray. Ballance. Theo. The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm . 1994 . Air-Britain (Historians). Tonbridge, UK . 0-85130-223-8 .
• Book: Sturtivant. Ray. Hamlin. John. Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912 . 2007 . Air-Britain (Historians). Tonbridge, UK. 978-0851-3036-59.
• Book: Thetford . Owen . British Naval Aircraft since 1912 . 1991 . Putnam Aeronautical Books, an imprint of Conway Maritime Press . London, UK . 0-85177-849-6 .

Notes and References

1. Heinonen and Valtonen 2010, pp. 100–101.
2. Web site: Avro Anson Mk I (pre-WWII) . . www.haf.gr . Hellenic Air Force . 4 October 2020 .
3. Web site: No.1 Service Flying Training School (India) . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120803171431/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1940s/Trg-1SFTS.html . 3 August 2012 .
4. http://nei.adf-serials.com/indonesian-aviation-1945-50.pdf "Indonesian aviation 1945–1950."
5. Archive 1982, p. 32
6. Web site: G-AJFX, G-AKFL, G-AKFM – Registration History. CAA G-INFO. 5 March 2024.
7. Web site: Avro Anson C.19. RAF Museum. 1 March 2024.
8. Web site: G-AIPA, G-AMDA, G-AGWE – Registration History. CAA G-INFO. 1 March 2024.
9. Web site: G-AKFM – Registration History. CAA G-INFO. 5 March 2024.
10. Web site: G-AHXK/L/M – Registration History. CAA G-INFO. 1 March 2024.
11. Web site: G-AHYN – Registration History. CAA G-INFO. 1 March 2024.
12. Web site: G-ALIH – Registration History. CAA G-INFO. 18 September 2023.
13. Web site: G-AIPA et al – Registration History. CAA G-INFO. 5 March 2024.
14. Web site: G-AGUD – Registration History. CAA G-INFO. 18 September 2023.

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