Ant.H
March 25, 2009 at 5:28 pm

Avro 504 LV-X373

I was surprised to see this one while browsing through airliners.net.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Avro-504K/1496331/L/&tbl=&photo_nr=114&sok=&sort=&prev_id=1496418&next_id=1496319

Managed to find a web page about it in Spanish, which seems to suggest it’s a recently completed replica.

http://aeropuertoparana.blogspot.com/2009/02/volo-el-avro-504-k-lv-x373.html

Can anyone add more?

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By: Pete Barker - 14th October 2010 at 22:15

504

Any idea why the Kinner was removed for a Rotec R3600?

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By: Ant.H - 1st April 2009 at 14:11

I’ve managed to find out a little bit more about this replica thanks to a PM from one of the guys involved, and a bit of online digging. She’s the work of the Pur Sang Historic Aircraft Team at Parana city airport, and she first flew in January. Aside from the Kinner, she’s a highly accurate replica.

I’ve also found some footage of her on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/carlosdebortoli

She seems to fly beautifully, and that Kinner actually sounds rather good!

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By: Arabella-Cox - 25th March 2009 at 20:28

Cooling problems would be the least of their worries in flight. In most of the pictures there is no covering on the port wings :rolleyes:

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By: Fleet16b - 25th March 2009 at 19:56

Definitely a Kinner up front.
It appears that they have some cooling problems while in flight as the picture show that it has cowls only wjhen displayed on the ground. None when in the air.

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By: John Aeroclub - 25th March 2009 at 18:36

The engine appears to be a Kinner R5 or B5. Very well done.

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