Aircraft Data Sheet: Westland PV-7 (1933)

First flight:	3rd October 1933
Span:	18.36m/60ft 3ins
Length:	11.79m/38ft 8ins
Max weight:	2,048kg/4,515lb
Max level speed:	150knots/278kph
Power plant:	One 722shp/538kW Bristol Pegasus lll M3
Total built:	One

Intended as a two seat general purpose aircraft in response to Specification G 4/31, the PV-7 incorporated military requirements to produce an aircraft capable of a diverse range of roles such as; Bombing, reconnaissance, army co-operation, casualty evacuation and even torpedo attack. No fewer than nine companies submitted designs, none of which were eventually accepted.

The Westland prototype suffered a wing failure in flight and was destroyed, the pilot, Harald Penrose, escaped by parachute (the first ever from an enclosed cockpit), but the PV-7 was discontinued.