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Armstrong Siddeley Serval

1920s British piston aircraft engine

Field	Value
name	Serval/Double Mongoose
image	ASServal.JPG
engine_type	Radial engine
manufacturer	Armstrong Siddeley
national_origin	United Kingdom
first_run	1928
major_applications	Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta
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The Armstrong Siddeley Serval was a British ten-cylinder aero engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley in the late 1920s. Following company tradition, the engine was named for the serval.

Design and development

The Serval was a ten-cylinder, double-row, air-cooled radial piston engine. It was developed from the Armstrong Siddeley Mongoose and was, more or less, two Mongooses built around a single crankcase; indeed it first appeared as the Double Mongoose in May 1928.

Built in several variants, power output was about 340 hp (254 kW).

Variants

Serval I initially Double Mongoose :(1931) 340 hp. ;Serval III :(1932) ;Serval IIIB :(1932) 310 hp. ;Serval IV : 310 hp. ;Serval V :(1933) 340 hp.

Applications

Airco DH.9
Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta
BFW M.36
Canadian Vickers Vancouver
Fairey Fox
ICAR Comercial
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Stampe et Vertongen SV.5 Tornado

Specifications (Serval I)

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References

Notes

Bibliography

Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.
Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

References

Gunston 1989, p.17.
Lumsden 2003, p.77.

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