- Dewoitine D.21
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D.21 Dewoitine D.21, Turkish AF Role Fighter Manufacturer Dewoitine First flight 1925 The Dewoitine D.21 was 1920s French open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage monoplane fighter aircraft.
Development
The prototype D.21 was a development of the D.12. The aircraft was licence-built in Switzerland (by EKW), Czechoslovakia (by Skoda and known as the Skoda-Dewoitine D.1) and Argentina (by FMA).
Operational history
Argentina bought seven D.21s, and built another 58 under their own licence. Turkey bought a number, and Czechoslovakia built 25 for their air force.[1]
Operators
Specifications (variant)
Data from [1]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 1
- Length: 7.64 m (25 ft .75 in)
- Wingspan: 12.8 m (41 ft 0 in)
- Wing area: 24.8 m2 (266.95 ft2)
- Empty weight: 1,090 kg (2,403 lb)
- Gross weight: 1,580 kg (3,483 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 12Gb inline piston engine, 373 kW (500 hp) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 270 km/h (168 mph)
- Range: 400 km (249 miles)
Armament
- 2 × fuselage-mounted syncronised 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Vickers machine guns
- 2 × wing-mounted 7.5 mm (0.295 in) Darne machine guns in the center section (optional)
References
- ^ a b Donald, David, ed (1997). The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Prospero Books. pp. pg. ISBN 1-85605-375-X.
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