Avia BH-9

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name=BH-9


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type=Sports plane
manufacturer=Avia
designer=Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn
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introduced=1923
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number built=11
variants with their own articles=The Avia BH-9 was a two-seat sport aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in 1923, based on the BH-5. As with other developments in the BH-1 lineage, the BH-9 was a low-wing braced monoplane that accommodated the pilot and passenger in tandem, open cockpits. The BH-9's structure was strengthened to allow for the use of a higher-power engine than in its predecessors, and for the first time, this was a domestically-produced powerplant.

The Czechoslovakian Army showed interest in it as a trainer and liaison aircraft, and ordered 10 examples under the designation B.9.

A B.9 won the 1925 Coppa d'Italia air race, and the following year, one was flown on a 1,800 km (1,100 mile) circuit Prague-Paris-Prague with an average speed of 131.2 km/h (82 mph).

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crew=one pilot
capacity=1 passenger
length m=6.64
length ft=21
length in=10
span m=9.72
span ft=31
span in=11
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height m=2.53
height ft=8
height in=3
wing area sqm=13.6
wing area sqft=146
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empty weight kg=345
empty weight lb=761
gross weight kg=550
gross weight lb=1,213

eng1 number=1
eng1 type=Walter NZ 60 radial
eng1 kw= 45
eng1 hp= 60
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max speed kmh=158
max speed mph=98
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range km=470
range miles=290
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ceiling m=4,500
ceiling ft=14,800
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References

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* Němeček, V. (1968). "Československá letadla". Praha: Naše Vojsko.
* [http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/bh9.html airwar.ru]

ee also

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BH-5 -
BH-10 -
BH-11 -
BH-12

similar aircraft=

sequence=
BH-6 -
BH-7 -
BH-8 -BH-9 -
BH-10 -
BH-11 -
BH-12

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