Editing ABC Robin (section)

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{{Infobox aircraft
 |name = Robin
 |image = A.B.C.Robin.jpg
 |caption = 
 |type = Cabin monoplane
 |manufacturer = [[ABC Motors|ABC Motors Limited]]
 |designer = Anthony "Tony" Archibald Fletcher  
 |first_flight = [[1929 in aviation|1929]]
 |introduction = 
 |retired = [[1932 in aviation|1932]]
 |produced = 
 |number_built = 1
 |status = Scrapped
 |unit cost =
 |primary_user = 
 |more_users = 
 |developed_from = 
 |variants = 
}}

The '''ABC Robin''' was a British single-seat light aircraft designed by A. A. (Tony) Fletcher in [[1929 in aviation|1929]]. It was a high-wing, single-seat [[monoplane]] of conventional [[Conventional landing gear|taildragger]] configuration.<ref>{{cite journal|title=none|journal=Air Progress|date= November 1978|page=18}}</ref> The [[cockpit]] was fully enclosed, the first lightplane to be so equipped in Britain.<ref>''Flight'' 30 May 1929 page 441 et seq</ref> It was designed at the request of T. A. Dennis (managing director) specifically to use the firm's 30–40 h.p. Scorpion engine.

Construction was primarily of wood with metal confined to fittings and a few highly stressed parts. The fuselage was constructed as a wooden box consisting of four spruce longerons with thin plywood covering with light internal bulkheads. The wood-framed wings, of RAF 34 section, were hinged at their inner rear corners to the top of the fuselage and supported by tubular struts in 'Vee' formation to the lower longerons of the fuselage. The tail was also wood-framed and both wings and tail were covered with doped fabric.

The Robin, registered G-AAID, was built by [[ABC Motors|ABC Motors Limited]] at [[Hersham]] in [[1929 in aviation|1929]]. Its first flight was made at [[Brooklands]] in June and it was displayed at the Olympia Aero Show in July. ABC had no aircraft manufacturing facilities, so production aircraft were intended to be made by [[S. E. Saunders]] at [[East Cowes]], [[Isle of Wight]]. Marketing was taken seriously, with the aircraft painted in the colours of [[National Flying Services]] (NFS) from whom an order was anticipated,<ref name="Ord-Hume">{{cite book |last1=Ord-Hume |first1=Arthur W. J. G. |title=British Light Aeroplanes |date=2000 |publisher=GMS Enterproses |location=Peterborough, UK |isbn=1 870384 76 8 |page=222}}</ref> and it was featured in the NFS 1929 Annual.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Flying Services Aircraft Types 1929 |url=https://www.aviationancestry.co.uk/?searchQuery=National+Flying+Services+Aircraft+Types+1929&startYear=1929&endYear=1933 |website=Aviation Ancestry - British Aviation Industry Advertisements 1909-1990 |access-date=24 November 2022}}</ref>

The aircraft was modified later in 1929 with the [[Windshield|windscreen]] moved back to allow access to the fuel filler caps from the outside, and with an enlarged [[Vertical stabilizer|fin]] and [[rudder]]. It was granted its certificate of airworthiness in June 1930 and a week later took part in the [[King's Cup Air Race]], but it dropped out with engine problems, which were common with the Scorpion engine. Unfortunately, due to the [[Great Depression]], there was no demand for the aircraft and the sole Robin built was scrapped at [[Brooklands]] in [[1932 in aviation|1932]].<ref name="Ord-Hume" />