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BEAUFORT IN RAAF SERVICE - 1 942-45. by FRANK SMITH The story of the Australian~bui!t Beaufort bomber could almost be sub-titled The Birth of an Industry’, for it signalled the move of construction from single-engined to multi-engined aircraft on a large scale. The development of the Aircraft Construction Branch of the Commonwealth Department of Supply and Development through the Aircraft Production Commission, Department of Aircraft Production (Beaufort Division) to the Government Aircraft Factory is a saga in its own right, and should be dealt with as a separate story, as is CAC’s building of the Pratt 8c Whitney R-1830 engines which powered a large proportion of Australian-built fighters and bombers. -Ed. First Australian built Beaufort Mk, V, T9540 later A9-1, seen flying over Melbourne. After a visit to Australia in January 1939, by a British T9639) from the British Air Ministry, as they were destined Air Mission, which was sent to investigate the possibility of for the R.A.F. Far East squadrons. During December 1941 manufacturing aircraft for the rapidly expanding RAF and the Department of Aircraft Production was to deliver to the RAAF, a decision was quickly reached, and in March of RAF six Beaufort aircraft for use in Malaya, these being;- that year it was announced that the Bristol Beaufort would T9541, T9542, T9543, T9544, T9545 and T9547. Only five be manufactured by the Aircraft Production Branch of the of the aircraft reached No. 100 Sqn RAF at Singapore as Commonwealth Department of Supply and Development in Melbourne and Mascot, for both Air Forces. Meanwhile, to assist production, the eighth Bristol built Beaufort Mk.1 (L4448, which later became A9-1001) was imported in ‘Knock-Down-Kit’ form for a series of trials. As difficulty was to be expected in the supply of Taurus VI - 1,130 hp engines which powered the British-built version, this aircraft was eventually fitted with American Pratt & Whitney 1,200 hp Twin Wasps. After further trials it was found that the aircraft had to have its fin area increased by I5V2 per cent to improve stability while in flight. The first Australian built Beaufort flew in August 1941 and being destined for the RAF bore the serial number T9540. It was the intention that half of the first contract were to have been built for the RAF, and the first 90 The 'Pattern' Beaufort L4448. aircraft were allocated serials (T9540 - 163 AHSA Aviation Heritage wmm '^r mm.....^^ Beaufort front fuselages under construction at the Railway Workshops, Chullora, N.S. W T9543 crashed and was destroyed at Batchelor, Northern The Mk.1E Turrets were manufactured by the Gun Australia, on the delivery flight; the others were Turret Factory Annexe at Fairfield, Victoria, and altogether, subsequently returned to Australia as they were unarmed, aircraft manufacture was sub-contracted to some 600 and were taken over by the RAAF and re-serialed A9-2, companies throughout Australia, the end products being -3, -5, -6, and -8. The remainder of the British contract completed as major assemblies in the railway workshops reverted to the RAAF, and with the other 90 examples of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. The originally intended for the RAAF, formed the first Beaufort authority for the entire project was in the hands of the squadrons in Australia. Department of Aircraft Production (post-war, eventually, With the various difficulties encountered in the early the Government Aircraft Factories) controlling the Beaufort production of the P&W "Twin Wasp" engines in Australia, Division, for which main assembly workshops were built at and the supply of propellers from the USA, these first 180 Fishermens Bend, Victoria, and Mascot, New South aircraft were broken up into four Marks, as noted below. Wales. The major assemblies were delivered to these two Aircraft from serial number A9-91 onwards were fitted with points, the aircraft finally assembled and test flown, and the 15V2% larger fin, and this modification was later made then delivered to the RAAF. retrospective on all earlier aircraft. At the termination of the first contract, in November 1942, production continued with the Mk.VIII version, of which a total of 520 examples were finally completed in August 1944, at the rate of 30 aircraft per month. This model of the Beaufort was fitted with Loran, radar, additional fuel tankage and modified windows on the starboard side of the fuselage nose. It appeared also that a great number of the earlier Beauforts were modified to Mk.VIII standard, although exact numbers are unknown. In 1943, a Mk.VIII machine (A9- 201) was modified by the D.A.P. Servicing Department to become a communications aircraft. The gun turret and all other armament and bombing equipment were removed: a fuselage fairing was then fitted to provide accommodation for five passengers. One of the last Beaufreighter conversions A9-743 exA9-20l delivered August 1944. The bomb bay was reworked as the 164 AHSA Aviation Heritage equipment was removed to provide a cargo hold. The did not embody the deepened lower fuselage, the radio and instrument installations were re-designed, and instrument or auto-pilot modifications made to the an automatic pilot was installed. prototype-A9-201. 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