__NOTOC__ The Austin Kestrel was a British two-seat

biplane A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While a ...

designed and built by the

Austin Motor Company The Austin Motor Company Limited was an English manufacturer of motor vehicles, founded in 1905 by Herbert Austin in Longbridge. In 1952 it was merged with Morris Motors Limited in the new holding company British Motor Corporation (BMC) Limi ...

. Only one aircraft was built.

Design and development

Designed to enter a 1920 Air Ministry competition the Kestrel was a conventional biplane with an open cockpit with side-by-side seats for two.Jackson 1973, p. 289. Registered ''G-EATR'' the Kestrel came third in the small aeroplane class. The company decided to concentrate on motor car production and the aircraft was sold in 1924 but not flown again.

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Austin Memories: Aircraft Production
{{Austin aircraft 1920s British civil utility aircraft

Kestrel The term kestrel (from french: crécerelle, derivative from , i.e. ratchet) is the common name given to several species of predatory birds from the falcon genus ''Falco''. Kestrels are most easily distinguished by their typical hunting behaviou ...

Abandoned civil aircraft projects of the United Kingdom Aircraft first flown in 1920