Breguet 26T

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26T
Breguet 26T Limousine (1929-1936) (5811527904).jpg
Role Airliner
Manufacturer Breguet, CASA under licence
First flight 1926
Number built6

The Breguet 26T was a French single-engine biplane airliner that first flew in 1926.

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Biplane airplane wing configuration with two vertically stacked main flying surfaces

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Airliner aircraft designed for commercial transportation of passengers and cargo

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Development

The 26T was an attempt by the Breguet company to find a civil market for their 19 warplane by mating its wings, tail surfaces and undercarriage to an entirely new fuselage design and new engine. The resulting aircraft could carry six passengers within an enclosed cabin, while the pilots sat in an open cockpit ahead of the upper wing. The engine originally chosen was a French-built licensed copy of the Bristol Jupiter radial, but on one of the two Breguet-built civil examples, this was later changed back to the Lorraine 12Ed inline, as used on the Br.19.

The Société des Ateliers d'Aviation Louis Breguet also known as Breguet Aviation was a French aircraft manufacturer. The company was set up in 1911 by aviation pioneer Louis Charles Breguet.

Breguet 19 aircraft

The Breguet 19 was a light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, also used for long-distance flights, designed by the French Breguet company and produced from 1924.

Landing gear aircraft part which supports the aircraft while not in the air

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These two aircraft served as predecessors for the definitive civil version of this family, the Breguet 280T, while CASA purchased a licence to build another two in Spain for the domestic market, and France's Aviation Militaire purchased two more as air ambulances under the designation Bre.26TSbis.

Breguet 280T

The Breguet 280T was a French biplane airliner of the late 1920s, created by the manufacturer as a means of finding a civil market for their 19 warplane, as they had once tried before with the 26T.

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Operators

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Spanish Air Force Air warfare branch of Spains armed forces

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Spanish Republican Air Force

The Spanish Republican Air Force was the air arm of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic, the legally established government of Spain between 1931 and 1939.

Specifications (26T)

General characteristics

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 206 km/h (128 mph)
  • Service ceiling: 5,000 m (16,404 ft)

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