Breguet 16

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type=Night bomber
manufacturer=Breguet
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first flight= 1 June 1918
introduced= 1921
retired= 1926
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The Breguet 16 was a bomber biplane produced in France towards the end of World War I.

Design and development

Design of the Breguet 16 was essentially a scaled-up version of Breguet's highly successful Breguet 14 - a conventionally configured biplane with two-bay, unstaggered, equal-span wings. Trials in 1918 proved highly promising, and production in mass by several French manufacturers under licences from Breguet was planned for 1919. These plans were discarded upon the Armistice, but more limited production was revived in the early 1920s as the French Air Force began a programme of modernisation.

Operational history

In service, the single-engined Breguet 16 was used to replace obsolete twin-engined Farman F.50s in the night bomber role as the Bre.16Bn.2. Some of the two hundred aircraft built were deployed to Syria and Morocco, and Breguet also managed to sell some to the militaries of China and Czechoslovakia.

Variants

;Bre.16Bn.2:Night bomber version.

Operators

;China as ROC
*Chinese Nationalist Air Force;CZS
*Czechoslovakian Air Force;FRA
*French Air Force

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crew=Two, pilot and observer
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length m=9.55
length ft=31
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span m=16.96
span ft=55
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height m=3.32
height ft=10
height in=11
wing area sqm=75.5
wing area sqft=813
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empty weight kg=1,265
empty weight lb=2,789
gross weight kg=2,200
gross weight lb=4,850
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eng1 number=1
eng1 type=Renault 12Fe
eng1 kw= 224
eng1 hp= 300
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max speed kmh=160
max speed mph=99
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range km=900
range miles=559
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ceiling m=4,600
ceiling ft=15,090
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armament1=1 × trainable .303 Lewis gun in observer's cockpit
armament2=550 kg (1,213 lb) of bombs
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