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Dewoitine D.21

The Dewoitine D.21 was a 1920s French open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage, parasol winged monoplane fighter aircraft.

Design and development

The prototype D.21 was a development of the D.12. The aircraft was license-built in Switzerland (by EKW), Czechoslovakia (by Skoda and known as the Skoda-Dewoitine D.1) and Argentina (by FMA). One Turkish D.21 was fitted with a modified wing and named Orhanelli.

Operational history

Argentina bought seven French-built D.21s, and built another 38 under license by FMA from 1929 to 1932. The type remained in service until 1941. Turkey bought a number, and Czechoslovakia built 25 for their air force.

Variants

D.21 C.1:French Production version, license-built in Argentina and Turkey.
Skoda D.1:Licence manufacture of the Dewoitine D.21 in Czechoslovakia by Skoda;(26 built - included in D.9 total). Škoda L was a licence-built Hispanio Suiza HS-50. Armament only 2 × Vickers machine-guns

Operators

Specifications (D.21 C.1)

See also

References

Citations

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Sebastian Sequeira, Carlos Cal y Cecilia Calatayud. Aviación Naval Argentina. SS&CC ediciones, Buenos Aires, 1984. (Spanish)

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