Breguet 16

16

Portuguese Bre16Bn.2 "Patria"
Role	Night bomber
Manufacturer	Breguet
Designer	Marcel Vuillierme
First flight	1 June 1918
Introduction	1921
Retired	1926
Number built	ca. 200

The Breguet 16 was a bomber biplane produced in France toward the end of World War I.

Design and development

Design of the Breguet 16 was essentially a scaled-up version of Breguet's highly successful 14 - a conventionally configured biplane with two-bay, unstaggered, equal-span wings. Trials in 1918 proved highly promising, and production in mass by several French manufacturers under licences from Breguet was planned for 1919. These plans were discarded upon the Armistice, but more limited production was revived in the early 1920s as the French Air Force began a programme of modernisation.^[1]

Operational history

In service, the single-engine Breguet 16 was used to replace obsolete twin-engine Farman F.50s in the night bomber role as the Bre.16Bn.2. Some of the 200 aircraft built were deployed to Syria and Morocco, and Breguet also managed to sell some to the military air arms of China and Czechoslovakia.^[2]

Variants

Bre.16Bn.2: Night bomber version.

Operators

China

Chinese Nationalist Air Force

Czechoslovakia

Czech Air Force

France

French Air Force

Portugal

Portuguese Air Force

Specifications

General characteristics

Crew: Two, pilot and observer
Length: 9.55 m (31 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 16.96 m (55 ft 8 in)
Height: 3.32 m (10 ft 11 in)
Wing area: 75.5 m² (813 ft²)
Empty weight: 1,265 kg (2,789 lb)
Gross weight: 2,200 kg (4,850 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Renault 12Fe, 224 kW (300 hp)

Performance

Maximum speed: 160 km/h (99 mph)
Range: 900 km (559 miles)
Service ceiling: 4,600 m (15,090 ft)

Armament

1 × trainable 7.7 mm (.303 in) Lewis Gun in observer's cockpit
550 kg (1,213 lb) of bombs

References

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Notes

↑ Taylor and Alexander 1969, pp. 74–75.
↑ Taylor 1989, p. 199.

Bibliography

Taylor, John W. R. and Jean Alexander. Combat Aircraft of the World. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. ISBN 0-71810-564-8.
Taylor, Michael J. H. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions, 1989. ISBN 0-517-69186-8.
World Aircraft Information Files. London: Bright Star Publishing, File 890, Sheet 80–81.

Aircraft produced by Breguet Aviation

Early types	Aerhydroplane Gyroplane Type I Type II Type III Type IV (1910) Type IV (1914) Type V Type A Type G Type U Type LE

Model numbers	4 5 6 12 14 16 17 19 20 22 230 26T 27 270 271 273 274 280T 390T 392T 393T 410 460 462 470 482 500 521 522 530 610 670 690 691 693 694 695 696 730 731 790 791 792 890 891 892 893 894 895 900 901 902 904 905 906 940 941 960 1001 1002 1004 1100 1050 1150

By name	Alizé Atlantic Atlantique 2 Bellatrix Bizerte BLC BUC BUM Choucas Colmar de Chasse Deux-Ponts Épaulard Fauvette Fulgur Integral Jaguar Leviathan Louisette Mars Mercure Michelin Mouette Nautilus Nymphale Provence Sahara Saigon Taon Universale Vultur (carrier attack aircraft) Vulture (medium bomber)

Helicopters	Gyroplane Gyroplane Laboratoire Breguet G.11E Breguet G.111

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