Slingsby Type 49 Capstan production list


T49A - Prototype - side-by-side two-seat trainer, first flown 4 Dec 1961
T49B - production version with taller fin
T49C - Powered trainer with a 45hp Nelson engine on a pylon above the centre section

Type Ser No. Reg 1 Reg 2 Reg 3 Reg 4 / Remarks
A 1314 BGA 1009

Bicester - "49A"
B 1370 BGA 1106

Upwood/Crowland/Tibenham - "BNR"
B 1390 BGA 1118 RNGSA LM71 ? BGA 1118 Midden-Zeeland, Netherlands - "N55"
B 1392 BGA 1120

Destroyed in hangar fire, Nympsfield 7.5.73
B 1395 BGA 1130

Crashed near South Marston 20.10.79
B 1399 BGA 1131

Aboyne - "BPS"
B 1400 BGA 1132

Bicester (stored)
B 1402 BGA 1133

Challock - "BPU"
B 1404 BGA 1134

Weston-on-the-Green - "BPV"
B 1408 BGA 1135

Stored, Midden-Zeeland, Netherlands - "BPW"
B 1413 BGA 1183

Lasham - "BRW"
B 1414 BGA 1191

Haddenham - "BSE"
B 1417 BGA 1163

Kenley - "BRA"
B 1418 BGA 1196 RNGSA LS32 ? BGA 1196 Portmoak - "BSK"
B 1449 BGA 1203

Crashed on field landing near Talgarth 26.1.08
B 1450 BGA 1205 AP-AUH
Destroyed by fire, Pakistan 13.11.90
B 1451 BGA 1204 N42727

B 1452 BGA 1232 9J-GAI

B 1472 BGA 1237

Seighford - "A23"
B 1476 BGA 1248

Crashed, Camphill 3.9.66
B 1482 BGA 1249

Edgehill - "BUR"
B 1496 BGA 1311

Destroyed in hangar fire, Portmoak 19.3.91
B 1520 Burma


B 1534 UB0006

Defence Services Museum, Naypyitaw, Myanmar
B 1539 Burma


B 1561 Burma


B 1569 BGA 1358

Crashed near Camphill 6.4.69
B 1572 Burma


B 1581 BGA 1360

Aston Down - "BZG"
B 1589 Burma


C 1599 G-AWDV N5551 G-AWDV Destroyed by fire, Kirbymoorside 18.11.68
B 1664 N7475

Crashed near Leonardtown, Maryland 15.7.11
B 1671 -

Not completed - Destroyed by fire, Kirbymoorside 18.11.68
B FMD 45 ZK-GDQ VH-UKQ
Kit built by F M Dunn; broken up
B FMD 86 ZK-GDU VH-CQH
Kit built by F M Dunn; Australian Gliding Museum



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