Breda Ba.19
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Role | Military aerobatic trainer |
Manufacturer | Breda |
Designer | Cesare Pallavicino |
First flight | 1928 |
Introduction | 1931 |
Primary user | Regia Aeronautica |
Number built | 42 |
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The Breda Ba.19 was an Italian single-seat aerobatic biplane aircraft developed as an air force trainer in 1928.
Design and development[]
The Breda Ba.19 was a single-bay, unequal-span, unstaggered biplane of conventional configuration which seated its pilot in an open cockpit. A few Ba.19s were produced as two-seaters with a second open cockpit in tandem with the first.
Operational history[]
The Ba.19s were used throughout the 1930s for display flights by the , performing formation aerobatics.
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The sole surviving Breda Ba.19, at the Caproni Museum, Trento, Italy.
Operators[]
Specifications[]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1, pilot
- Length: 6.60 m (21 ft 8 in)
- Wingspan: 9.00 m (29 ft 6 in)
- Height: 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in)
- Wing area: 25.0 m2 (269 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 735 kg (1,620 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Alfa Romeo licence-built Armstrong Siddeley Lynx radial , 149 kW (200 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 210 km/h (131 mph, 114 kn)
- Range: 840 km (522 mi, 454 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 7,000 m (22,960 ft) [1]
See also[]
References[]
- Notes
- ^ Angelucci 1983, p. 124.
- Bibliography
- Angelucci, Enzo. The Rand McNally Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft, 1914–1980. San Diego, California: The Military Press, 1983. ISBN 0-517-41021-4.
- Taylor, Michael J. H. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions, 1989, p. 195.
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