__NOTOC__ The Auster C6 Atlantic was a British four-seat cabin monoplane designed and built by

Auster Aircraft Limited Auster Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1938 to 1961.Willis, issue 122, p.55 History The company began in 1938 at the Britannia Works, Thurmaston near Leicester, England, as Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Limited, m ...

. Development of the type was abandoned after initial flight tests.

Design and development

The C6 Atlantic was designed as a high-wing monoplane, four-seat executive tourer,Jackson 1973, p. 288 powered by a 185 hp (138 kW) Continental E-185-10 piston engine and based on the Auster J/5T with a tricycle landing gear and other modern items such as control wheels.Wenham 2015, p52 One aircraft was built which, as a fitted out fuselage registered ''G-APHT'', was statically displayed at the 1957 SBAC Show at Farnborough. Subsequently a pair of Autocrat wings were fitted and early flight tests were encouraging.Hitchman 2006, p30 However, these flights were curtailed by a nose leg collapse due to an inferior nosewheel strut which had been fitted only for the static display and not replaced with the correct item before the first flight. Although the airframe was repaired and modified, the directors considered the future of the Atlantic at length. An estimate was prepared of the projected development costs and this totalled in excess of £100,000, so that the break-even point required the sale of 300 aircraft. Since maximum sales were envisaged as probably 100 at the most, and with no outside financial help, development was reluctantly abandoned. The sole aircraft was stored until being brought out of storage in 1960 for comparison with the proposed Auster D.8; since production of the C.6 would have required the manufacture of new jigs,Wenham 2015, p53 the D.8 was pursued instead, ultimately becoming the

Beagle Airedale The Beagle A.109 Airedale is a British light civil aircraft developed in the 1960s. Design and development The Airedale was a four-seat, high-wing braced monoplane with a fixed, tricycle undercarriage, mainly of steel tube construction and fa ...

Specifications

References

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Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...

1950s British civil utility aircraft