The Renard Epervier was a

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prototype single-seat all-metal fighter monoplane designed by Alfred Renard at the '' Societé Anonyme Avions et Moteurs Renard'' for a government-sponsored design contest in 1928. The Epervier Type 2 was built and flown in 1928, by Belgian aircraft manufacturer

Stampe et Vertongen Stampe et Vertongen was a Belgian aircraft manufacturer formed in 1922 and based at Antwerp. The company specialised in design and construction of primary trainers/tourers and advanced trainers. One of their products - the Stampe-Vertongen SV.4 ...

. It carried an armament of two synchronised 7.7mm guns and was lost in September 1928 after failing to recover from a flat spin. A second prototype, the Epervier Type 2bis, introduced revised streamlined fairings for the cantilever mainwheel legs, mainwheel spats and cylinder aft-fairings and was built by

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(''Société Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques'').

Variants

;Epervier Type 2: The prototype fighter designed, built and flown by

in 1928, crashing in a flat spin in September 1928: one built. ;Epervier Type 2bis: A replacement aircraft for the first prototype, built by

and powered by a SABCA Jupiter or

Hispano-Suiza 12N The Hispano-Suiza 12N was one of two new V-12 engine designs first run in 1928 and was manufactured by Hispano-Suiza's French subsidiary for the Armee d'l'Air. It produced about , was the first to use gas nitride hardening and introduced wet ...

engine.; one built. ;Epervier Type 3: A developed version to have been powered by a

Rolls-Royce Kestrel The Kestrel or type F is a 21 litre (1,300 in³) 700 horsepower (520 kW) class V-12 aircraft engine from Rolls-Royce, their first cast-block engine and the pattern for most of their future piston-engine designs. Used during the interwar p ...

V-12 engine; not built.

Specifications - Type 2bis

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* {{Renard aircraft 1920s Belgian fighter aircraft Epervier Aircraft first flown in 1928