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Avro Athena
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<p>The Avro 701 Athena is a British advanced <a href="/facts/Trainer_(aircraft)/7sfKaA8h">trainer</a> aircraft built by <a href="/facts/Avro/R7EPGE9P">Avro</a> in the late 1940s. It was designed to replace the <a href="/facts/North_American_T-6_Texan/LyDkgQEC">North American Harvard</a> in the <a href="/facts/Royal_Air_Force/P10CbL5H">Royal Air Force</a>, but was bought only in small numbers, the competing <a href="/facts/Boulton_Paul_Balliol/zLtSGfq0">Boulton Paul Balliol</a> being preferred. </p>