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The Armstrong Whitworth Siskin was a sesquiplane single-seat fighter aircraft developed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft.It was also the first all-metal fighter to be operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), as well as being one of the first new fighters to enter service following the end of the First World War.
The most successful aircraft made by Armstrong-Whitworth in the inter-war period was the Siskin which first flew in 1919 and remained in RAF service until 1932, with 485 produced. [ 3 ] In 1935, J. D. Siddeley retired and Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft was purchased by Hawker Aircraft , the new group becoming Hawker Siddeley Aircraft .
They were named after the bird family Siskin. It was the air force's first official aerobatic team. It was the air force's first official aerobatic team. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Flying three Armstrong Whitworth Siskin biplanes , the Siskins quickly built a reputation for performing daring maneuvers.
The squadron was to include a Fighter Flight with the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin Mark IIIA and a Bomber Flight with the Westland Wapiti. Only the former was formed on 1 September from the pre-existing Fighter Flight formed in 1930 [6] as the Wapitis had yet to arrive from England. [1]
Armstrong Whitworth Siskin: 1: 1925–1926 -Nieuport-Delage NiD 29 C.1: 10: 1926–1930 Air Force (1926–40) Created in July of 1926. Designations Key Abbrev ...
A. Armstrong Whitworth A.W.14; Armstrong Whitworth A.W.15; Armstrong Whitworth A.W.16; Armstrong Whitworth A.W.19; Armstrong Whitworth A.W.23; Armstrong Whitworth A.W.27
Armstrong Mitchell and later Armstrong Whitworth built many merchant ships, freighters, tank-ships, and dredgers; notable among them was the ice-breaking train ferries SS Baikal in 1897 and SS Angara in 1900, built to connect the Trans-Siberian Railway across Lake Baikal.
There he joined a small team flying obsolescent Armstrong Whitworth Siskin IIIAs with open cockpits, no artificial horizon or radio, and only the most rudimentary blind-flying instruments (a Reid & Sigrist "turn-and-bank" indicator and an inclinometer).