| S.51 | |
|---|---|
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| Role | Fighter |
| Manufacturer | Blériot |
| Designer | André Herbemont |
| First flight | 16 June 1924 |
| Primary users | Polish Air Force Turkish Air Force Soviet Air Force |
| Number built | ca. 60 |
The Bleriot-SPAD S.51 was a French fighter aircraft developed in 1924 in response to a French Air Force requirement for an aircraft to replace their obsolete Nieuport-Delage NiD.29s. [1]
Designed by André Herbemont, the S.51 shared its basic configuration with his other aircraft of the period, being a biplane with a swept upper wing and unswept lower wing, joined by I-shaped interplane struts. Unlike earlier designs, the S.51 used metal construction for the wings.
The prototype S.51 was rejected by the French authorities, but revised versions found export customers in the Polish Air Force, which bought 50 of them, and the Turkish and Soviet air forces which each bought a single example. Another development, the S.51/3, was experimentally fitted with the first controllable-pitch propeller developed in France, also designed by Herbemont. [2]
Poland 
Soviet Union
Spain
Turkey 
Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928, [6] Aviafrance:S.51-2 [4]
General characteristics
Performance
Armament
2 × fixed, forward-firing 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Vickers machine-guns
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