More photos & a little history to go with them.
Beagle Aircraft Ltd (British Executive General Aviation) was formed by Peter Masefield in 1961 by amalgamating the Auster (Rearsby) and Miles (Shoreham) companies. (He also brought some design staff with him from Bristol where he had been managing director.) While his pet project the B206 was being developed at Shoreham the Rearsby factory continued producing typical Austers. This is an earlier J1 Autocrat designed before Beagle existed.


The first offering from Rearsby was a refurbished (as new) ex-Army Auster AOP 6 like this one. The civil version was named the Beagle-Auster Terrier & sold for just under £2,000. The club I worked for at the time was persuaded to have one of the first examples for publicity purposes. Must admit I wasn't keen on it & preferred our Tiger Moths.



The first proper Beagle-Auster, the Airedale.




This is the more traditional Beagle-Auster D5 Husky.

Interesting tank underneath the first one Doug - looks like someones stuck a Tiger Moth tank underneath it...

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I hadn't noticed it. Think it was developed for the WWII Army Austers. I've seen them fitted to the Auster V.

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I never really liked them. Built like a battleship & surprising heavy compared with a Moth - or a Cub come to that. Try pushing one out of the hangar.

Course, it's different now they're vintage types. Plenty still about but some variants are quite rare.