The Handley Page Handcross was a single-engined biplane day bomber built to an Air Ministry specification.

In August 1923 the Air Ministry issued specification 26/23, which called for a day bomber powered by a Rolls-Royce Condor III engine which could carry a 550 lb (250 kg) bomb load with a 500-mile (800 km) range.

The wide-track divided main undercarriage had legs mounted on the wing front spar below the innermost interplane struts, braced to the fuselage.

[1] Handley Page were awarded an order for three prototypes and the first of these flew at the company's Cricklewood base on 6 December 1924, piloted by Hubert Broad.

[1] The last one stayed at Cricklewood until 1926, serving as a test machine and the second, moved from Farnborough to Martlesham, remained with the Armaments Trial Flight until 1928.