Blériot 165

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type=Airliner
manufacturer=Blériot
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first flight=27 October 1926
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primary user=Air Union
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number built=2
variants with their own articles=The Blériot 165 (or Bl-165) was a French airliner of the 1920s. It was a four-engined biplane, a final development in the family of designs that began with the Blériot 115. Two were built for Air Union to replace the Farman Goliath on their Paris-London route and were christened "Léonard de Vinci" and "Octave Chanute". The airline found that it preferred the Liore-et-Olivier LeO 21s that it had ordered alongside this aircraft, meaning that no further examples were produced.

The second aircraft had originally been fitted with Renault 12 inline engines and night-flying equipment and had been designated Blériot 175, but it was soon refitted to the same standard as the first and shared its designation. At one point, plans were made to build a second 175 for Paul Codos to make a long-distance flight from Paris to Tokyo, but this did not eventuate. Similarly, plans to build a bomber version as the Blériot 123 were also abandoned.

Variants

* 165 - Original design with Bristol Jupiter engines
* 175 - Renault 12-powered version, fitted with night-flying gear.
* 123 - Projected three-seat bomber version. Not built.

Operators

; FRA
* Air Union

pecifications

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crew=Two pilots
capacity=16 passengers
length m=14.75
length ft=48
length in=8
span m=23.00
span ft=75
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height m=4.85
height ft=15
height in=11
wing area sqm=119.1
wing area sqft=1,281
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empty weight kg=2,919
empty weight lb=6,435
gross weight kg=5,600
gross weight lb=12,346

eng1 number=4
eng1 type=Gnome et Rhône licence-built Bristol Jupiter 9Ab radial engines
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eng1 hp= 420
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max speed kmh=185
max speed mph=115
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range km=525
range miles=327
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ceiling m=4,000
ceiling ft=13,120
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climb rate ms=2.2
climb rate ftmin=440
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* [http://www.aviafrance.com/1674.htm aviafrance.com]

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