The Miles Hawk Trainer was a 1930s

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two-seat training monoplane designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

Design and development

The

Miles Hawk Trainer The Miles Hawk Trainer was a 1930s British two-seat training monoplane designed by Miles Aircraft Limited. Design and development The Miles Hawk Trainer was developed from the Hawk Major to meet a requirement to supplement the de Havilland ...

was developed from the Hawk Major to meet a requirement to supplement the

de Havilland Tiger Moth The de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth is a 1930s British biplane designed by Geoffrey de Havilland and built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and other operators as a primary trainer aircraft. ...

in the training role. The aircraft had dual controls, blind flying equipment and vacuum operated flaps. Based on the attributes of the Trainer, the Air Ministry issued Specification T.40/36, which led directly to the

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Variants

;M.2W Hawk Trainer :Initial production version powered by a

de Havilland Gipsy Major The de Havilland Gipsy Major or Gipsy IIIA is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted inline engine used in a variety of light aircraft produced in the 1930s, including the famous Tiger Moth biplane. Many Gipsy Major engines still power vintag ...

engine, four built. ;M.2X Hawk Trainer :Improved version with a larger horn-balanced rudder, nine built. ;M.2Y Hawk Trainer :M.2X with minor changes, 13 built. *Note that Hawk Trainer Mk II and Mk III were variants of the

Operators

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Spanish Republican Air Force The Spanish Republican Air Force was the air arm of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic, the legally established government of Spain between 1931 and 1939. Initially divided into two branches: Military Aeronautics ('' Aeronáutica M ...

Survivors

*M.2W registered G-ADWT is still flyable and based in

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Specifications (M.2W)

References