Avia BH-16

BH-16
Role	Sports plane
Manufacturer	Avia
Designer	Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn
First flight	1924

The Avia BH-16 was a single-seat very light sport aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in 1924. Like other early Avia designs, it was a low-wing braced monoplane of wooden construction. It could be powered by either a 12 kW (16 hp) four-cylinder Vaslin engine or a 19 kW (26 hp) inverted-V twin-Blackburne Tomtit.^[1]^[2]

Specifications (Vaslin engine)

General characteristics

Crew: one pilot
Length: 5.13 m (16 ft 10 in)
Wingspan: 9.50 m (31 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 10.6 m² (114 ft²)
Empty weight: 130 kg (287 lb)
Gross weight: 238 kg (525 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × 4-cylinder Vaslin, 12 kW (16 hp)

Performance

Maximum speed: 116 km/h (72 mph)
Range: 500 km (310 miles)
Service ceiling: 2,000 m (6,600 ft)
Rate of climb: 1.0 m/s (200 ft/min)

References

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↑ Serryer, J. (24 July 1924). "Les avionettes Avia". Les Ailes (162): 2.
↑ "Aeroshow at Prague". Flight. XVI (23): 362. 5 June 1924.

Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 86.
Němeček, V. (1968). Československá letadla. Praha: Naše Vojsko.

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