page_title: Chilton Aircraft
section_title: The Chilton D.W.1
hierarchical_section_title: Chilton Aircraft / The Chilton D.W.1
caption_attribution_description: English: Chilton D.W.1 G-AFSV at Netheravon, Wiltshire
context_page_description: Chilton Aircraft Ltd was a British aircraft design and manufacturing company of the late 1930s and 1940s.
context_section_description: The founders designed a small, low-powered, but fast, sporting monoplane, designated the Chilton D.W.1. The aircraft had a clean aerodynamic design, which required split flaps to lower the landing speed. The Carden Ford 32 h.p. gave it a declared top speed of 112 mph, but during racing, 129 mph was eventually reached.
  Four aircraft were built between early 1937 and July 1939, the last having a 45 h.p. Train 4T engine, being designated the D.W.1A. A further development, the Chilton D.W.2, was commenced, but had not been completed at the outbreak of World War II. The four aircraft were stored during the war and the jigs, spares and the half-completed D.W.2 were taken over by the College of Aeronautical Engineering at Redhill Aerodrome.
  All four D.W.1s flew post-war, taking part in many air races, but after accidents, only two survived in airworthy condition in 2005. From the mid-1980s, three examples have been commenced by amateur builders, one of which first flew in 1987. These aircraft are powered by a Lycoming O-145 engine.
caption: The Chilton D.W.1A at Netheravon Airfield, Wiltshire, in April 1968
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