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The Airspeed Ambassador experienced a very brief career in Australian service. The only operator to employ the type was Butler Air Transport and that was for barely a year's service between August 195 7 and August 1958. (Eric Allen)
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Airspeed Ambassador
PART ONE IN A SERIES EXAMINING THE AIRLINERS THAT ESTABLISHED CIVIL AVIATION IN AUSTRALIA
The Airspeed Ambassador can trace its history back to the Brabazon Committee which met during 1943. It developed from a requirement originally known to the committee as the Brabazon IIA, an aircraft powered by piston engines for short to medium routes to replace the DC-3. Airspeed was subsequently asked to prepare a design and preliminary work began in 1943. In its original form, the aircraft was to have been powered by two Bristol Hercules engines with a gross weight of 32,000lb. What eventually evolved was rather different.
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