The Chrislea L.C.1 Airguard is a 1930s

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two-seat cabin monoplane, designed by R.C. Christophorides and B V Leak, and built by Chrislea Aircraft Limited at

Heston Aerodrome Heston Aerodrome was an airfield located to the west of London, England, operational between 1929 and 1947. It was situated on the border of the Heston and Cranford areas of Hounslow, Middlesex. In September 1938, the British Prime Minister, ...

Development

The Airguard was designed as a training aircraft for the

Civil Air Guard The Civil Air Guard (C.A.G.) was established by the UK Government in July 1938 to encourage and subsidise pilot training as the prospect of another war loomed. Subsidised tuition for members of participating civilian flying clubs was offered in e ...

; it was a two-seat (side-by-side) low-wing cantilever monoplane, powered by a 62 hp

Walter Mikron II The Walter Mikron is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted straight engine for aircraft. Development Developed in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s, the engine saw limited use in late 1930s and early 1950s. In the 1980s an initial batch of engi ...

inline piston engine.Jackson 1973, p. 289

Operational history

It was built in 1938, and registered G-AFIN After a time in private ownership, it was withdrawn from use and stored until the 1970s. It was re-built with a new fuselage, but it remains in private storage (2006), not having flown since

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

.Pither, 2009, p. 4

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, date= August 1988 , volume=16 , issue=8 , pages=506–508 1930s British civil utility aircraft Airguard Single-engined tractor aircraft Low-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1938