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    An Ap-32 type was used also as an recce aircraft. Its armament comprised two fixed and two ones flanking the cockpit incl. bomb racks under the lower wing for twelve pieces of 10 kg bombs. Climb to 5 000 m in 26 minutes, service ceiling of 6 700 m.

     

     

     
       

    A-30 and A-130 had been forerunners of the Aero A-230 type being built from the 1930 year. A-230ś Dimensions : Span : 15.3 m, length 10 m, empty weight 1420 kg. Powerplant : a 490 hp Lorraine Ditrich. Performance : Top speed 198 km.p.h., climb to 5 000 m in 27 mins, service ceiling 5 800 m, endurance five and a half hrs

     

         		  
       

     

    Avia F-VIIb /Fokker VII.B/3M/ monoplane was turned out under licence as the first transport plane from the 1931 year. It was tested in the Scientific Aeronautical Institute as a bomber under the S-19 code,  and as a transport by the Cz Air Liners Comp. Wood-framed wings covered by plywood Fuselage, tailplane, fin, rudder, elevator steel framed covered by fabric. Metal plate bowling. Dimensions : Span : 21.7 m, length 14.5 m, empty weight 2750 kg. Fixed undercarriage Powerplant : three times a 240 Walter Castor driving three-blade composite propellers. Performance : Top speed 208 km.p.h., service ceiling 5 000 m, range 800 km. Bombload : up to 800 kg accomodated in a bombay incl. under wings. Defensive : three machine guns 

     

     

     
       

    An Letov S-328 multi-role biplane was used as recce- one and light bomber had been designed in 1932 as a reaction of the Letov Company to its Finnish customer`s demand to fit an strenghtened engine in the airframe of the offered S-228 type. The S-328 one was the most numerous in its category in the Czechoslovak Air Force arsenal. Range of an Recce-and Observer version from 700 to 1280 km, service ceiling from 6 300 to 7 200 m. Powered by a 560 Pegas.

     

     

     

     
       
     

    The float-version of the production S-328 type amounted two machines only. These ones were used for target- tug duties over the Adriatic Sea in the Boka Kotorska Region, where gunnery was practised the Cz artillery. Handling characteristics not deteriorated by fitting the floats and that reason for neither center of gravity nor the fin was in the need of mounting. In production in the 1925-1926 period.

     
       
     

    Nine Avia F-IX /Fokker F-IX/ monoplanes powered by three 450 Walter Jupiter engines were built in Czechoslovakia under the Dutch Licence in 1932. Two more machines for an Yugoslavian customer were fitted by strenghtened 560 Gnome Rhone Jupiter engines. Their licence was bought by Yugoslavia later. The Avia F-IX type was used only in a bomber version through the 30s till the March 15, 1939 German Occupation.

    		  
       
     

    An Praga BH-111 type built in 1932 due to Air Race with rearwards folded wings.   Production BH-111s were not realized. Dimensions : Span 10.5 m, length 7. 4 m, emty weight 470 kg. Powerplant : a de Havilland Gipsy III engine. Performance : Top speed 230 km.p.h., climb 3 000 m in 15 min 45 sec

     

     
       

    A Praga-111 type was used in Flying Clubs of the Masaryk`s Aviators League, called after the first President of Czechoslovakia Thomas Garrique Masaryk.

     

         		  
       
       

    An Avia F-IX /Fokker F-IX/ bomber assigned to No 5 Brno Bomber Reg. Dimensions : span 27.14 m, length 19.3 m, empty weight 5 450 kg. Performance : Top speed 210 km.p.h., climb ratio 2.5 mps only !!!, service ceiling 5 000 m Bombload : 1 500 kg, crew of 5

     

     
       

    Failure of one engine resulted in envitable fall and all hands lost. Being obsolete, this type was hated by the crewmen.

     

         		  
       
     

    The first prototype of an Avia B-34 fighter plane. Ing František Novotny and test pilot Cpt Vladimir Cerny wearing his flying suit stand front of the machine. The latter one was shot dead by the Nazis. Mass-produced from the 1932. Dimensions : Span 7.25 m, length 9.4 m. Powerplant : a 650 Avia Vr 36 Performance : Top speed 315 km.p.h., climb ratio 12mps, range 600km Armament : two synchronized machine guns

     

     
       

    An A-100 type was turned out from 1933 in bomber- and recce versions.Wings wood-framed, covered by fabric. Fuselage, elevator, rudder as well as tail-plane and  fin steel-tube framed, fabric-covered Dimensions : 14.7 m, length 10.6 m, empty weight 2 040 kg. Powerplant : a 650 hp Avia Vr-36 engine Performance : Top speed 270 km.p.h., service ceiling 6 500 m, climb to 5 000 m in 20 mins, endurance 4 hrs Bombload : 600 kg in a bomber vision A shot of recce aircraft.