Wheeler Slymph

Wheeler Slymph G-ABOT at Old Warden in March 1965.

A single-seat mid-wing monoplane designed and built by A.H.Wheeler in 1931. Construction was started in Hinaidi, Iraq, that year. It was fitted with a Blackburn Tomtit engine.

It was not flown and brought to Henlow where it was registered G-ABOI c/n AHE.1.

In 1932 it was converted to an ABC Scorpion engine but it was never flown.

It was donated to the Shuttleworth Trust at Old Warden and stored there until loaned to the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society. It was stored in the Coventry area.

Span: 22.00 ft
Length: 14.09 ft

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