The Dewoitine D.27 was a
parasol
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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 planes.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing confi ...
fighter aircraft designed by
Émile Dewoitine
Émile Dewoitine (26 September 1892 – 5 July 1979) was a French aviation industrialist.
Prewar industrial activities
Born in Crépy-en-Laonnais, Émile Dewoitine entered the aviation industry by working at Latécoère during World War I ...
in 1928.
Design and development
After the end of
World War I
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, the slump in demand for aircraft forced Dewoitine to close his company and move to
Switzerland in 1927.
He produced the D.27 the following year, 66 of which were produced for the
Swiss Air Force
The Swiss Air Force (german: Schweizer Luftwaffe; french: Forces aériennes suisses; it, Forze aeree svizzere; rm, Aviatica militara svizra) is the air component of the Swiss Armed Forces, established on 31 July 1914 as a part of the army an ...
from 1931. It was also license-built in
Yugoslavia
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by
Zmaj aircraft and in
Romania
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