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Vintage Airspeed Oxford Trainer

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Airspeed Oxford
The Airspeed Oxford over the 42nd Air School training Base during WWII.

Ref. No. T-14
Title: Distant Memories.
Description: Airspeed Oxford WW2 Trainer, currently a restoration project in the SAAF Port Elizabeth Museum. No. G-AITF depicted flying over the Port elizabeth 42nd air School base during the 1940's.
(SAAF Unofficial website) - Description:
The Oxford Mk I was a general-purpose, bombing and gunnery trainer, usually fitted with a dorsal gun turret.
The Oxford, built to Specification T.23/36, was based on Airspeed's commercial 8-seater craft, the Airspeed AS.6 Envoy. Seven of these had been modified for the South African Air Force as the "Convertible Envoy", which could be equipped at short notice with a single machine-gun in a hand-operated Armstrong Whitworth dorsal turret and bomb racks.
Medium:
Size: 505 x 405 mm.
Date: December 2010.
Price: R3,000.00

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