List of Santos-Dumont aircraft
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Through his career, aviation Pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont designed, built, and demonstrated a variety of aircraft — balloons, airships (dirigibles), monoplanes, and biplanes, and even a floatplane and a helicopter.
| Santos-Dumont aircraft | |||
| Type | Name | Year | Info |
| balloon | Brésil | 1898 | - |
| airship | No. 1 | 1898 | - |
| airship | No. 2 | 1898 | - |
| airship | No. 3 | 1899 | - |
| airship | No. 4 | 1900 | - |
| airship | No. 5 | 1901 | - |
| airship | No. 6 | 1901 | Won the Deutsch Prize. |
| airship | No. 7 | 1902 | Not clear whether it was ever flown; it was destroyed at the St. Louis exhibition. |
| There never was a No. 8; Santos-Dumont was superstitious about the number. | |||
| airship | No. 9 Baladeuse | 1903 | - |
| airship | No. 10 | 1905 | A 10-person omnibus; made only test flights. |
| monoplane | No. 11 | 1905 | Used as glider only, never had an engine. |
| helicopter | No. 12 | 1905-6 | - |
| airship | No. 13 | 1905 | - |
| airship | No. 14 | 1905 | - |
| biplane | No. 14-bis | 1906 | Tail-forward (canard) design; his historical flight. |
| biplane | No. 15 | 1906-7 | Tail-rearward (tractor) design, like all others below. |
| airship | No. 16 | 1907 | - |
| biplane | No. 17 | - | Design only, never built. |
| floatplane | No 18 | - | Wingless; probably would have wings someday, but not followed up on. |
| monoplane | No 19 | - | - |
| monoplane | No 20 | - | A modification of No. 19. |
| monoplane | No 21 Demoiselle | 1909 | - |
| monoplane | No 22 Demoiselle | - | With a different engine |
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