__NOTOC__ The Hinkler Ibis was a British two-seat wooden amphibian

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designed and built by the Australian aviator

Bert Hinkler Herbert John Louis Hinkler (8 December 1892 – 7 January 1933), better known as Bert Hinkler, was a pioneer Australian aviator (dubbed "Australian Lone Eagle") and inventor. He designed and built early aircraft before being the first person ...

while working in the United Kingdom.UK Civil Aviation Authority
G-AAIS registration

Design and development

Hinkler designed and built the Ibis with the assistance of R.H. Bound at

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in Hampshire. The wing was designed by Basil Henderson and built by Hendy Aircraft at

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. It was a two-seat high-wing monoplane made of wood and powered by two

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radials. The two engines were strut mounted back-to-back above the fuselage, one driving a pusher propeller, the other a tractor propeller. The Ibis registered ''G-AAIS'' was first flown from Hamble in May 1930 and later stored in the garden of Hinkler's house in Southampton. According to the aircraft's registration with the Civil Aviation Authority, it was deregistered in December 1933. In 1953, it was found in a semi-derelict condition in the garden but was scrapped in 1959.

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*UK Civil Aviation Authority
G-AAIS registration
1930s British civil utility aircraft Twin-engined push-pull aircraft High-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1930 Amphibious aircraft {{aero-1930s-stub