Aero A.32

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Aero A.32

Incomplete A.32 in the Finnish museum

Type Reconnaissance - bomber
Manufacturer Aero
Maiden flight 1927
Introduced 1928
Retired 1944
Primary user Czechoslovak Air Force
Finnish Air Force
Number built 116

The Aero A.32 was a biplane built in Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s for army co-operation duties including reconnaissance and tactical bombing. While the design took the Aero A.11 as its starting point (and was originally designated A.11J), the aircraft incorporated significant changes to make it suited for its new low-level role.

Like the A.11 before it, the A.32 provided Aero with an export customer in the Finnish Air Force, which purchased 16 aircraft in 1929 as the A.321F and A.32GR (which spent most of their service lives as trainers). They were assigned numbers AEj-49 - AEj-64 and were used until 1944. At least one fuselage has survived, preserved at the Finnish Air Force Museum (in storage, as of 2003).

A total of 116 of all variants were built.

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[edit] Specifications (A.32)

General characteristics

  • Crew: two, pilot and observer
  • Length: 8.20 m (26 ft 11 in)
  • Wingspan: 12.40 m (40 ft 8 in)
  • Height: 3.10 m (10 ft 2 in)
  • Wing area: 36.5 m² (393 ft²)
  • Empty weight: 1,046 kg (2,301 lb)
  • Loaded weight: 1,917 kg (4,217 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1× Gnome-Rhone built Bristol Jupiter radial engines, 313 kW (420 hp)

Performance

Armament

[edit] See also

Related development Aero A.11

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