Miles Monarch

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M.17 Monarch
Type Light civil touring aeroplane
Manufacturer Phillips and Powis Aircraft Ltd
Designed by Frederick George Miles
Maiden flight 21 February 1938
Introduced 1938
Primary user Royal Air Force
Produced 1938-1939
Number built 11

The Miles M.17 Monarch was a British, light, touring aeroplane of the 1930s. It was a single-engine, three-seat, cabin monoplane with a fixed, tailwheel undercarriage.

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[edit] Development

The last civil type produced by Phillips and Powis before the war, the Monarch was a development of their earlier Whitney Straight. Compared to its sibling. the Monarch had an enlarged fuselage, allowing provision of a third seat in part of what had been the luggage space.

[edit] Operational history

Eleven aircraft were built between 1938 and 1939, six of these to British customers, the rest going to export.

On the outbreak of war, five of the British-registered machines were impressed by the Air Ministry; one machine belonging to Rolls-Royce acquired camouflage paint but remained in its owner's service. All but one of these survived the war, though a Dutch-registered aeroplane (PH-ATP) was destroyed in the Luftwaffe raid on Schiphol on 10 May 1940.

In the Fifties, one Monarch (G-AIDE) enjoyed some success as a racer in the hamds of W.P. Bowles

For the most part, the remaining Monarchs led uneventful but useful careers; a number are known to have survived into the Sixties.

[edit] Sporting successes (G-AIDE)

  • 1st - Goodyear Trophy (1957) [1]
  • 3rd - King's Cup Race (1957)
  • 1st - Norton Griffiths Trophy (1958)
  • 2nd - Osram Cup Race (1958)

[edit] Aircraft markings

[edit] Operators

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[edit] Specifications (M.17)

Data from British Civil Aircraft since 1919, Volume 3

General characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Capacity: 2 passengers
  • Length: 25 ft 11.75 in (m)
  • Wingspan: 35 ft 7 in (m)
  • Height: 8 ft 9.25 in (m)
  • Wing area: 180 ft² (m²)
  • Empty weight: 1,390 lb (kg)
  • Loaded weight: 2,200 lb (kg)
  • Useful load: lb (kg)
  • Max takeoff weight: lb (kg)
  • Powerplant: 1× De Havilland Gipsy Major I inline, 130 hp (kW)

Performance


[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Jackson 1974

[edit] Bibliography

  • Amos, Peter. and Brown, Don Lambert. Miles Aircraft Since 1925, Volume 1. London: Putnam Aeronautical, 2000. ISBN 0-85177-787-0.
  • Brown, Don Lambert. Miles Aircraft Since 1925. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1970. ISBN 0-37000-127-3.
  • Jackson, A.J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919, Volume 3. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1974. ISBN

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[edit] See also

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