| Vickers F.B.19 | |
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| Role | Single-seat scout |
| Manufacturer | Vickers |
| Designer | G H Challenger |
| First flight | August 1916 |
| Introduction | 1916 |
| Primary users | Royal Flying Corps Russia/USSR |
| Number built | 62 |
The Vickers F.B.19 was a British single-seat scout of the First World War. It was a single-engine, single-bay, unstaggered equal-span biplane.
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The F.B.19 was designed by G H Challenger and first flew in August 1916. It was ordered by the War Office for the RFC.
Fifty F.B.19s were built and six were sent to France for operational evaluation. They were found to be unsuitable for the fighting conditions then evolving. A number of F.B.19s were sent to Russia. Those which were still crated on the dockside were destroyed by the Royal Navy after the Revolution but some were used by the Bolshevik forces.
Twelve examples of the Mk II, with staggered mainplanes and a 110-hp (82-kW) Le Rhône or Clerget engine, were built. Several were sent to the Middle East in a batch of twelve F.B.19s. From June 1917, these operated in Palestine and Macedonia but they were not popular and no squadron was fully equipped with the type.
Data from British Aeroplanes 1914–18[1]
General characteristics
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