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The ASJA L2 was a
Swedish
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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 ...
trainer aircraft
A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews. The use of a dedicated trainer aircraft with additional safety features—such as tandem flight controls, forgiving flight characteristi ...
built for the Swedish Air Force in the early 1930s. It was designated Ö 9 in that service. The
fuselage
The fuselage (; from the French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an engine as well, although in some amphibious aircraft t ...
was of fabric-covered, welded steel tube construction and accommodated the pilot and instructor in tandem open
cockpits. The wings were fabric-covered wood and were of staggered, single bay layout.
Only two examples were built, one with wheels and the other with floats. The landplane served until written off in a crash in
1937
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and the floatplane until made obsolete in
1940
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Events
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Operators
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Swedish Air Force
Units using this aircraft
* Wing F 1 at Västerås
* Wing F 2 at Hägernäs
Specifications
References
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Military Aviation in Sweden (website)
{{Swedish military aircraft designations
1930s Swedish military trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
L2
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1932