__NOTOC__ The Avia BH-25 was a

biplane A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...

airliner An airliner is a type of aircraft for transporting passengers and air cargo. Such aircraft are most often operated by airlines. Although the definition of an airliner can vary from country to country, an airliner is typically defined as an ...

built in Czechoslovakia in 1926. Typical of airliners of its time, it seated five passengers within its fuselage, whilst the pilots sat in an open

cockpit A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a Pilot in command, pilot controls the aircraft. The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the ...

above. Of conventional configuration, it was a single-bay bi-plane of equal span and unstaggered wings, with fixed tailskid landing gear. Originally designed for a

Lorraine-Dietrich Lorraine-Dietrich was a French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935, created when railway locomotive manufacturer ''Société Lorraine des Anciens Etablissements de Dietrich et Cie de Lunéville'' (known as ''De Dietri ...

engine, this was changed to a

Bristol Jupiter The Bristol Jupiter was a British nine-cylinder single-row piston radial engine built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Originally designed late in World War I and known as the Cosmos Jupiter, a lengthy series of upgrades and developments turn ...

in service. After their withdrawal from airline use in 1936, some were used by the military for a while before finally becoming training targets.

Variants

* BH-25L – with Lorraine Dietrich engine * BH-25J – with Bristol Jupiter engine

Operators

; * Czechoslovakian Airlines – eight aircraft ; * Royal Romanian Air Force * SNNA – four aircraft

Specifications (BH-25J)

References

External links

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{{AVIA aircraft 1920s Czechoslovakian airliners BH-25

Variants

Operators

Specifications (BH-25J)

References

Further reading

External links