Miles Falcon

[1] The M.3 Falcon was a clean, single engined low-wing monoplane with trousered main undercarriage and fixed tail-wheel, designed in 1934.

It was structurally similar to the earlier Miles M.2F Hawk Major family, but had side-by-side seating for two behind the pilot in a glazed cockpit.

It had a wider fuselage than the prototype to improve passenger comfort and revised glazing with a forward sloping windscreen.

[2] Pre war, three Falcon Sixes appeared in RAF garb at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) for trials of a variety of wings and aerodynamic innovations.

[3] Production numbers from[4] References 1 and 2 give detailed histories of the typically complicated lives of these small aeroplanes.

Miles M.3D Falcon Six G-ADTD wearing racing colours at Leeds (Yeadon) Airport in May 1955