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The Boulton Paul Balliol and Sea Balliol were monoplane military advanced trainer aircraft built for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA) by Boulton Paul Aircraft. Developed in the late 1940s the Balliol was designed to replace the North American Harvard trainer and used the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, with the Sea Balliol a naval version for deck landing training.
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Manufactured June 1943 at its Hagerstown factory by Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation as a UC-61A Forwarder. (Fairchild 24W-41A - RAF Argus 2). Constructor’s number 565. Engine - 165-h.p Warner Super Scarab radial. 512 of this model were built, of which the USAAF retained 148 for its own use, others going to Britain on Lend-Lease where they were mainly used by the Air Transport Auxiliary for ferry pilot duties, in addition to extensive RAF use in the Middle East and India.
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 43-14601 to order No.AC-28355 at a cost of $10,611.
29 Jun 43 Shipped to the United Kingdom via Brooklyn, New York to where it was delivered ‘by Land’.
It is likely that during the war years the aircraft was used as a hack aircraft by the US 8th Air Force and rendered surplus at the end of the war.
18 December 1946 Registered as G-AIZE.
Painted as "FS628" RAF SEAC. (The original FS628 was one of 161 Argus II aircraft delivered to the RAF March 1943 - February 1944; it served in the Far East and returned to the United States 27 March 1947
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The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, designed by Alexander Lippisch, was a German rocket-powered fighter aircraft. It is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational and the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1000 km/h (621 mph) in level flight. Its design was revolutionary and its performance unprecedented. German test pilot Heini Dittmar in early July 1944 reached 1,130 km/h (700 mph), an unofficial flight airspeed record unmatched by turbojet-powered aircraft for almost a decade. Over 300 aircraft were built, but the Komet proved ineffective in its dedicated role as an interceptor aircraft and was responsible for the destruction of only about nine to eighteen Allied aircraft against ten losses.
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