Angus Aquila
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The Angus Aquila was a 1930s British
United Kingdom
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single-seat low-wing monoplane
Monoplane
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with one main set of wing surfaces, in contrast to a biplane or triplane. Since the late 1930s it has been the most common form for a fixed wing aircraft.-Types of monoplane:...
designed and built by Arthur Leighton Angus. It had a open cockpit and was powered by a 40 hp Salmson AD.9
Salmson AD.9
|-See also:-Bibliography:* .* Flight magazine, 22 November 1929.*...
radial engine. The Aquila was registered
Aircraft registration
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G-ABIK and test flown in early 1931 at Hanworth Aerodrome near London but it was destroyed in a crash on 21 March 1931 killing Angus.