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History

After returning from the

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, a fighter pilot with the

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, and his brother Reg Larkin formed an agency for Sopwith aircraft. The company was formed in 1919 as the Larkin-Sopwith Aviation Company of Australia Limited, manufacturing aircraft components. The original company went into liquidation and Herbert Larkin then started the Larkin Aircraft Supply Company (known as Lasco) in 1921. In 1925 the company produced copies of the

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. The company also produced under-licence the

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and one de Havilland DH.50 biplane. It also designed and built a number of aircraft including the Lasco Lascoter in 1929, the first all-metal aircraft to be built in Australia. The last design was the three-engined Lascondor. Withdrawal of government subsidy, and economic depression, caused the company to shut in the 1930s.

Aircraft

* 1925 -

- built under licence. * 1928 - Lasco Lascowl - two ANEC III aircraft re-built and re-engined. * 1929 - Lasco Lascoter - single-engined six-seat monoplane. * 1931 -

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- glider. * 1932 -

- 32 built under licence.''Flight'' magazine, 19 December 1930, p.1469 (online archive version).
Retrieved: 15 December 2008 * 1932 - de Havilland DH.50 - one built under licence. * 1933 - Lasco Lascondor - three-engined seven-seat monoplane.

References

{{reflist * The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985), Orbis Publishing Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Australia Australian companies established in 1921