Farman F.500

F.500 Monitor
Stampe & Renard SR.7B Monitor IV OO-SRZ at Coventry Airport, England in July 1956
Role Two-seat trainer
Manufacturer Societe Anonye des Usines Farman
Stampe et Renard
First flight 1952

The Farman F.500 Monitor was a 1950s Franco-Belgian two-seat training aircraft.

Development

Farman had earlier produced the Stampe SV.4 under licence, and with the co-operation of Stampe designed a two-seat training monoplane using SV-4 components designated the Farman F.500. The prototype, named the Monitor I, first flew on 11 July 1952, it was a cantilever low-wing monoplane of mixed construction and conventional tail unit. It had a fixed tailwheel landing gear and room for two crew in tandem under a continuous canopy and was powered by a 140 hp (100 kW) Renault 4Pei engine. The production version designated the Monitor II was placed into production and first flew on 5 August 1955, it had all-metal wings and a Salmson-Argus engine. Production also took place in Belgium with Stampe et Renard under the designation SR.7B Monitor IV.

Variants

F.500 Monitor I
Protoype with a 140hp (104kW) Renault 4Pei engine, one built.
F.510 Monitor II
French production aircraft with a Salmson-Argus engine, metal, one built
F.520 Monitor III
Prototype Monitor I re-engined with a Regnier 4 L-02 engine.
F.521 Monitor III
with a Regnier 4 L-22 engine, one built.
SR.7B Monitor IV
Belgian production aircraft.

Specifications (Monitor II)

Data from The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1759

General characteristics

Performance

References

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era