List of Santos-Dumont aircraft

Through his career, aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont designed, built, and demonstrated a variety of aircraftballoons, 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

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