List of Santos-Dumont aircraft
Through his career, aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont designed, built, and demonstrated a variety of aircraft — balloons, airships (dirigibles), monoplanes, biplanes, 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 was not 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 given 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. |
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 Demoiselle |
- |
- |
monoplane |
No 20 Demoiselle |
- |
A modification of No. 19, considered to be the first practical ultralight aircraft. |
monoplane |
No 21 Demoiselle |
1909 |
- |
monoplane |
No 22 Demoiselle |
- |
With a different engine |
Notes and references
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List of aircraft •
No.1 • No.2 • No.3 • No.4 • No.5 • No.6 • No.7 • No.8 • No.9 • No.10 • No.11 • No.12 • No.13 • No.14/No.14bis • No.15 • No.16 • No.17 • No.18 • No.19 • No.20 • No.21 • No.22 •
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