General Aircraft Owlet

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GAL.45 Owlet
Type	two-seat trainer
Manufacturer	General Aircraft Ltd
Maiden flight	1940
Introduced	1941
Retired	1942
Status	written off
Primary user	Royal Air Force
Number built	1
Developed from	General Aircraft Cygnet

The General Aircraft GAL.45 Owlet was a 1940s British single-engined trainer built by General Aircraft Limited and Hanworth Aerodrome.

1 History
2 Military operators
3 Specifications
4 Reference
5 External links
6 Related content

[edit] History

The Owlet was a training version of the Cygnet II built as an attempt to produce a cheap primary trainer for the Royal Air Force. The main change was a modified fuselage with a tandem open cockpit (the cygnet had an enclosed cockpit). The Owlet registered G-AGBK first flew 5 September 1940. It did not attract any orders but ironically it was impressed into service (with serial number DP420) with the Royal Air Force as a tri-cycle undercarriage trainer for the Douglas Boston.

The only Owlett crashed near Arundel, Sussex in 30 August 1942.

[edit] Military operators

United Kingdom
- Royal Air Force

[edit] Specifications

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General characteristics

Length: 24 ft 7 in ()
Wingspan: 32 ft 5 in ()
Height: ()
Empty weight: 1,563 lb ()
Max takeoff weight: 2,300 lb ()
Powerplant: 1× Blackburn Cirrus Major I 4-cylinder inverted inline piston, 150 hp (112 kW)

Performance

Maximum speed: 125 mph

[edit] Reference

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985). Orbis Publishing.
Jackson, A.J. (1974). British Civil Aircraft since 1919. London: Putnam. ISBN 0 370 10014 X.