BREGUET 16

The 'Breguet 16' was a bomber biplane produced in France towards the end of World War I.

Contents

Design and development

Operational history

Variants

Operators

Specifications

References

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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

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★ Chinese Nationalist Air Force
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★ Czechoslovakian Air Force
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★ French Air Force

Specifications

References

★ Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation, , Michael J. H., Taylor, Studio Editions, 1989,

★ World Aircraft Information Files, , , , Bright Star Publishing, ,

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