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
 Czechoslovakia
 France
 Portugal

Specifications

General characteristics

Performance

Armament


References

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Notes

  1. Taylor and Alexander 1969, pp. 74–75.
  2. 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.
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