The Shapley Kittiwake is a 1930s
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two-seat gull wing monoplane designed and built by Errol Spencer Shapley at Torquay, Devon.
Development
The Kittiwake was a monoplane with a gull wing and a fixed landing gear.
The first aircraft, a Mark 1 registered G-AEZN, with a single-seat open cockpit was powered by a 50 hp (37 kW)
Continental A50
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piston engine and first flown at Roborough in June 1937, but was damaged in a crash landing later that year.
[Ord-Hume 1976, p. 684.] The second aircraft, a Mark 2 registered G-AFRP,
UK Civil Aviation Authority Aircraft Register G-AFRP
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engine and first flown at Roborough in 1938.
The Mark 1 aircraft was dismantled before the Second World War.
Specifications (Mark 2)
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1930s British civil utility aircraft
Gull-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1937