Avia BH-5

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type=Sportsplane
manufacturer=Avia
designer=Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn
first flight=1923
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variants with their own articles=The Avia BH-5 was a two-seat sport aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in 1923. It was based on the firm's experience with the BH-1 and shared that aircraft's basic design: a low-wing, braced monoplane. It received the nickname "Boska" due to its registration, "L-BOSA", an appellation that was later transferred to the various Avia aircraft derived from this design. The BH-5 was flown competitively by Zdeněk Lhota at the Belgian Touring Aircraft Contest in Brussels in 1923 and won both the overall prize for the event and the King of Belgium Prize. The same year, it won the first prize in its class in the Czechoslovak President of the Republic Competition.

On 1 June2007, a replica (OK-BOS) built by Marcel Sezemský and members of Historická letka Republiky československé completed its first flight from Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic. The engine used is an original 1923 Walter NZ_60 five cylinder unit [Flypast Magazine, August 2007, Key Publishing Ltd]

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crew=one pilot
capacity=1 passenger
length m=6.56
length ft=21
length in=6
span m=9.70
span ft=31
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wing area sqm=13.5
wing area sqft=145
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empty weight kg=337
empty weight lb=743
gross weight kg=575
gross weight lb=1,268

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eng1 type=Anzani radial
eng1 kw= 52
eng1 hp= 70
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max speed kmh=150
max speed mph=94
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range km=480
range miles=300
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climb rate ms=2.5
climb rate ftmin=550
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References

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* Němeček, V. (1968). "Československá letadla". Praha: Naše Vojsko.
* [http://www.historicflight.cz/en/pdf/prezentace_bh5_en.pdf Historická Letka Republiky Československé website] (pdf document)
* [http://technet.idnes.cz/na-vlastni-oci-jak-tezke-je-ridit-osmdesat-let-stare-letadlo-p48-/tec_reportaze.asp?c=A070604_152243_tec_reportaze_NYV The 2007 test flight reportage (in Czech)]

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