Jero N° 9 Antwerpen 1911
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The project for the construction of the Jero N° 9 Antwerpen 1911 aeroplane was born from the close cooperation between Pierre de Caters and the Bollekens Brothers. It was designed to appear in the Aviator stand at the Motor Show 1910-1911 and also especially to take part in the Circuit of Belgium 1911.
The construction startup took place at the time of the odyssey of the Baron de Caters to India. The Bollekens Brothers advised by the count d' Hespel and Lieutenant Sarteel, will succeed in presenting at the Motor Show this plane noticed by the experts.
In spring of 1911 the aeroplane become again the property of the Bollekens brothers. It is at this time that the Bollekens brothers made paint the text ' Jéro-Anvers' on all the rudders.
The Jéro N° 9 was equipped with a fuselage with cockpit protected by a hooding. This hooding of N° 9 carried the armorial of the town of Antwerp.
The pilot Parisot, flying the Jéro N°9 (with fuselage but with no hooding) finished at the second place at the Circuit of Belgium and won several awards at the days of Blankenberge.
Back to Sint-Job-in-' T Goor, the Jéro N° 9 was the preferred aircraft of the pupil-pilots with Henri Molla as instructor. Modified as a hydro-terrestrial with triangular tail in 1913, equipped with an engine Gnôme 80 CV, and after revision supplements and covered with emailite the Jero N°9 was used for schooling at Sint-Job and Kiewit.
With the declaration of the war in 1914 all planes of the Bollekens Brothers, and consequently also this training aircraft, were placed at the disposal of the Military aviation.'
M. Huybrechts build a scale model of this aircraft. For many years, the model was stored, but since January 2006, the Jero Nr 9 is back on show.
