Aero L-60 Brigadýr

L-60 Brigadýr
L60 as air ambulance at the Polish Aviation Museum
Role Utility aircraft
Manufacturer Aero
First flight 24 December 1953
Primary user Czechoslovakian aviation
Produced 273


The Aero L-60 Brigadýr (Czech: Brigadier) was a small, high-wing propeller-driven Czechoslovakian STOL utility aircraft developed for both civil and military use. A prototype, designated XL-60, with Argus As 10C engine, first flew on December 24, 1953, but it was not successful. The plane was thoroughly redesigned and the second improved prototype, with M-208B flat-six engine, flew on June 8, 1954. The aircraft's configuration bears a strong resemblance to the Fieseler Fi 156 "Storch" licence-produced in Czechoslovakia during and after World War II (as K-65 Čáp), and which this aircraft was intended to replace. By the end of production in 1960, 273 had been built, including an improved version, the L-160 with an all-metal tail.

Aircraft retrofitted with a PZL-built Ivchenko AI-14R radial engine are known as the L-60S.

Variants

Operators

Civil operators[1]

 Argentina
 Austria
 Bulgaria
 Cuba
 Czechoslovakia
 East Germany
 Hungary
 New Zealand
 People's Republic of China
 Poland
 Romania
 Soviet Union
 United Arab Emirates
 Yugoslavia

Military operators

 Czechoslovakia
 East Germany

Specifications (L-60)

Aero L-60S aerotows historical gliders

Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1961–62[2]

General characteristics

Performance

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era

References

Notes
  1. Krzyżan, Marian, Samoloty w muzeach polskich, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Komunikacji i Łączności, 1983, ISBN 978-83-206-0432-0
  2. Taylor 1961, p. 35.
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