Hanriot HD.14

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HD.14
Hanriot HD.14 L'Annee aeronautique 1921-1922.jpg
RoleTrainer
National originFrance
Manufacturer Hanriot
First flight1920
Primary users Aéronautique Militaire
Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, Polish Air Force, Soviet Air Force
Number builtca. 2,100

The Hanriot HD.14 was a military trainer aircraft produced in large numbers in France during the 1920s. It was a conventional, two-bay biplane with unstaggered wings of equal span. The pilot and instructor sat in tandem, open cockpits, and the fuselage was braced to the lower wing with short struts. The main units of the fixed tailskid undercarriage were divided, each unit carrying two wheels, and early production examples also had anti-noseover skids projecting forwards as well.

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In 1922, production shifted to a much improved version, known as the HD.14ter or HD.14/23. This featured a smaller wing area, and revised tail fin, interplane and cabane struts, and fuselage cross-section. The landing gear track was narrowed in order to facilitate the aircraft's loading onto the standard army trailer of the day.

Incredibly prolific (the Aéronautique Militaire alone operated 1,925 examples), it was also licence-produced by Mitsubishi in Japan, where another 145 were built, and by the CWL and Samolot in Poland, where respectively 125 and 120 were built (designated locally as H.28).

Variants

Operators

Hanriot H.28 in Poland Hanriot H.28.jpg
Hanriot H.28 in Poland
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Flag of France.svg  France
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain

Specifications (HD.14, early production)

General characteristics

Performance

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