Aero A.101

Infobox Aircraft
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name=Aero A.101


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type=Light bomber Reconnaissance aircraft
manufacturer=Aero Vodochody
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produced=1930s
number built=50
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variants with their own articles=The Aero A.101 was a biplane light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft built in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. It was an attempt to improve the Aero A.100 by enlarging it and fitting it with a more powerful engine. However, even with 33% more power, performance was actually inferior, and the Czech Air Force was not interested in the type. Production did result, however, when 50 were ordered by Spanish Republican forces for use in the Spanish Civil War. Some of these aircraft were captured by Nationalists while en route and used against their original buyers.

Local demand eventually was forthcoming, and a re-engined version was produced as the Ab.101.

pecifications (A.101)

aircraft specifications

plane or copter?=plane
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crew=2
length main=12.09 m
length alt=39 ft 8 in
span main=16.99 m
span alt=55 ft 9 in
height main=3.73 m
height alt=12 ft 3 in
area main=58.7 m²
area alt=631 ft²
empty weight main=2,578 kg
empty weight alt=5,671 lb
loaded weight main=4,345 kg
loaded weight alt=9,559 lb
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max takeoff weight alt=

number of props=1
type of prop=Praga-built Isotta-Fraschini
power main=738 kW
power alt=990 hp

max speed main=265 km/h
max speed alt=143 knots, 169 mph
range main=845 km
range alt=456 nm, 562 mi
ceiling main=5,500 m
ceiling alt=21,000 ft
climb rate main=2.5 m/s
climb rate alt=490 ft/min
loading main=74 kg/m²
loading alt=15 lb/ft²
power/mass main=170 W/kg
power/mass alt=0.10 hp/lb

guns=
** 2× forward-firing 7.92 mm (0.312 in) wz.29 machine guns
** 2× 7.92 mm Ckm wz.30 machine guns in ring mount for observer
bombs=500 kg (1,100 lb)

Operators

* Spain

ee also

aircontent

related=
* A.430
* A.100
* A.104

lists=
* List of bomber aircraft
* List of military reconnaissance aircraft