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__NOTOC__ The Comte AC-12 Moskito was a 1930s
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three-seat light touring cabin
monoplane A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple wings. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...
produced by Flugzeugbau A. Comte.


Design

The AC-12 was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with a fixed
tailwheel landing gear Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft Landing gear, undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the Center of gravity of an aircraft, center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail ...
. The enclosed cabin had a single seat forward for the pilot and a bench seat behind for two passengers. It was available fitted with a number of engines including the
Argus As 8 The Argus As 8 was a four-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted inline aircraft engine produced in Germany by Argus Motoren in the 1930s. Variants ;As 8A:Initial production version maximum for 5 minutes, continuous. ;As 8B:A more powerful variant de ...
and de Havilland Gipsy III inline engines or a
Armstrong Siddeley Lynx The Armstrong Siddeley Lynx is a British seven-cylinder Aircraft engine, aero engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley. It was developed as a single row version of the two-row Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar. Testing began in 1920 and 6,000 had been p ...
radial.


Specifications (with Argus engine)


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See also

1930s Swiss civil utility aircraft AC-12 Single-engined tractor aircraft High-wing aircraft Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear {{aero-1930s-stub