1 July 2025
Even the oldest airworthy aircraft in the UK need to be seen and at the Shuttleworth Collection‘s Festival of Flight air display, their 1910 Deperdussin Monoplane carried aloft a thoroughly modern uAvionix SkyEcho electronic conspicuity device.
uAvionix’s SkyEcho is a portable ADS-B in/out device which allows the aircraft to be seen by transmitting the aircraft’s position, altitude, course and speed to surrounding aircraft.
Here it is! Shuttleworth’s Deperdussin on an electronic display
SkyEcho can also receive ADS-B and Flarm data allowing the pilot to see other aircraft on an electronic display, such as Sky Demon on an iPad.
Shuttleworth’s airworthy 1910 Deperdussin is flown at displays at Old Warden Airfield during summer months. It’s powered by a 30hp 3-cylinder Anzani radial engine and is believed to be the 43rd example built by French company Aéroplanes Deperdussin. Despite being 115 years old, the Depperdussin is still not the oldest aeroplane at Shuttleworth – that honour falls to their 1909 Bleriot.
That’s enough excitement for the old girl! Shuttleworth ground crew tow the Deperdussin back to the hangar
