Caproni Ca.113

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Ca.113
Caproni Ca.113 L'Aerophile Salon 1932.jpg
Role Civil trainer aircraft
Manufacturer Caproni,
First flight 1931

The Caproni Ca.113 was an advanced training biplane produced in Italy and Bulgaria in the early 1930s. Designed as a follow-on to the Ca.100, it was a more powerful and robust aircraft capable of aerobatics. It was a conventional design with two cockpits in tandem, single-bay staggered wings of equal span, and mainwheels covered by large spats.

Caproni Ca.113 with engine Walter Castor, Cleveland (September 1931)

Design and development[]

The Ca.113's capabilities were demonstrated by Mario De Bernardi's win of the aerobatic trophy at the with engine Walter Castor[1] and its use in setting a number of aerial records, most importantly a world altitude record of 14,433 m (47,352 ft) set by on 11 April 1934. Other records included a women's world altitude record of 12,010 m (39,400 ft) set by Contessa Carina Negrone in 1935 and world endurance records for inverted flight. These latter records were set by at the US , who flew inverted from Los Angeles to San Diego and after the race meet, made an inverted flight from St. Louis to Chicago.

Caproni Ca.113 AQ altitude record aircraft

The Ca.113 was also produced in quantity by the subsidiary that Caproni established in Kazanlak, Bulgaria. Here, it was known as the Chuchuliga ("Skylark") and was produced in a number of versions designated KB-2, KB-3, KB-4 and KB-5 in 1938-1939, some of which were armed. 107 of these aircraft were produced, most going to the Bulgarian Royal Air Force, where they saw service until the country was overrun by the Soviet Union in 1944.

The sole surviving Ca.113, at Volandia Park and Aviation Museum, Milan Malpensa Airport, Italy

Operators[]

 Bulgaria
 Peru
 Portugal

Specifications[]

Caproni Ca.113 3-view drawing from L'Aerophile Salon 1932

General characteristics

  • Crew: two, pilot and instructor
  • Length: 7.30 m (23 ft 11 in)
  • Wingspan: 10.50 m (34 ft 5 in)
  • Height: 2.70 m (8 ft 11 in)
  • Wing area: 27.0 m2 (290 sq ft)
  • Empty weight: 850 kg (1,874 lb)
  • Gross weight: 1,100 kg (2,205 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Piaggio Stella P.VII C.35 , 276 kW (370 hp)

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 250 km/h (155 mph, 135 kn)
  • Range: 300 km (186 mi, 162 nmi)
  • Service ceiling: 7,300 m (23,950 ft)
  • Rate of climb: 8.8 m/s (1,730 ft/min)

See also[]

Related lists

  • List of Interwar military aircraft

References[]

  1. ^ Letectví, Vol. 11. (1931), No. 9., p. 329, https://kramerius.army.cz/search/i.jsp?pid=uuid:8d7084b2-520b-11e9-94e9-005056b73ae5

Bibliography[]

  • Andreev, Jordan (March 1999). "Les avions Kaproni-Bulgarski (I)" [The Kaproni-Bulgarski Aircraft]. Avions: Toute l'aéronautique et son histoire (in French) (72): 48–50. ISSN 1243-8650.
  • Andreev, Jordan (April 1999). "Les avions Kaproni-Bulgarski (fin)" [Kaproni-Bulgarski Aircraft]. Avions: Toute l'aéronautique et son histoire (in French) (73): 45–52. ISSN 1243-8650.
  • Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 234.
  • World Aircraft Information Files. London: Bright Star Publishing. pp. File 891 Sheet 10.

External links[]

Media related to Caproni Ca.113 at Wikimedia Commons

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