Blériot 127

Blériot 127
Blériot 127
Role Bomber
Manufacturer Blériot
Designer Leon Kirste
First flight 7 May 1926
Introduction April 1929
Retired 1934
Primary user Armée de l'Air
Number built 44


The Blériot 127 (or Bl-127) was a French bomber aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s, developed from the Blériot 117 escort fighter. It was a large monoplane of conventional configuration that featured open gunner's positions in its nose and at the rear of its two underwing engine nacelles. The wing airfoil was of sufficient thickness that these latter positions could be accessed from the fuselage in flight.

Forty-two aircraft were operated by the Armée de l'Air from 1929 until 1934, by which time they were thoroughly obsolete.

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 France


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Notes
  1. William Green, War planes of the Second World War: Volume 7
  2. SPCA 30
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