Hollandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek Avia

Avia
Role Two seat fighter aircraft/post and passenger transport
National origin Nederlands
Manufacturer Hollandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek
Designer Jablonski
First flight May not have flown




The Hollandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek Avia was a two seat biplane, designed and displayed in the Netherlands in 1918. It was advertised as a fighter or as a post and passenger aircraft. Its first flight has not been confirmed.[1]

Design and development

The Avia's only known appearance was at an exhibition at Rotterdam after the Armistice in 1918, where it was described both as a fighter, carrying fixed, forward firing machine guns and a moveable gun in the rear cockpit, and as a post- and passenger carrier. It was a two bay biplane with parallel interplane struts. The upper wing was supported over the fuselage by a cabane structure. It had a fixed, single axle conventional undercarriage, with struts from each wheel to the central fuselage underside and was powered by a 134 kW (180 hp) Argus six cylinder upright inline water-cooled engine, driving a two blade propeller.[1]

There were reports that the Avia was to be taken to Soesterberg for flight testing but nothing more was heard about it.[1]

Specifications

Data from Wissenlink[1]

General characteristics

Performance


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Wesselink, Theo; Postma, Thijs (1982). De Nederlandse vliegtuigen. Haarlem: Romem. p. 17. ISBN 90 228 3792 0.