Engineering:AVIS C.4
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C.4 | |
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Role | Liaison Monoplane |
National origin | Italy |
Manufacturer | Avio Industrie Stabiensi (AVIS) |
Designer | Ugo Abate |
First flight | 1940 |
Number built | 1 |
The AVIS C.4 was a 1940s Italian liaison aircraft designed by Ugo Abate and built by Avio Industrie Stabiensi (AVIS) for an Italian Air Force requirement for a liaison aircraft with a similar role to the Fieseler Fi 156.[1]
First flown in June 1940 the low-wing monoplane was in competition with the IMAM Ro.63 and Caproni GDL, but the results of test flights were not satisfactory and only one C.4 was built of the six originally ordered.[1]
Specifications
Data from [1]
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 8.7 m (28 ft 7 in)
- Wingspan: 13.96 m (45 ft 10 in)
- Height: 3 m (9 ft 10 in)
- Wing area: 28 m2 (300 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 826 kg (1,821 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 1,329 kg (2,930 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Hirth HM.508D air-cooled, eight-cylinder, inverted-V piston engine, 210 kW (280 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 240 km/h (150 mph, 130 kn)
See also
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 de Toni, Adriano. "Caproni AV.I.S. C.4" (in Portuguese). Brazil: www.deadlybirds.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120209210752/http://deadlybirds.com.br/pt/italia/index_rai.htm. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
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