223 Flamingo | |
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SIAT-built Flamingo at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport in June 1967 | |
Role | Civil trainer aircraft |
Manufacturer | SIAT/MBB CASA |
First flight | 1 March 1967 |
The MBB 223 Flamingo was a light aircraft developed in West Germany in the 1960s in response to a competition for a standard trainer for the country's aeroclubs. Designed by SIAT, it was a conventional low-wing monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage. The cockpit was enclosed by a large bubble canopy. SIAT had not undertaken much production of the type before the firm was acquired by MBB in 1970. Eventually, the new owners transferred production to CASA in Spain.
A fully acrobatic, single-seat version, and a four-seat utility version were also developed.
During the 2020 Turkish intervention in Idlib, Turkish airstrikes on Kweres Airfield destroyed at least 3 stored Syrian Air Force MBB 223 Flamingos. [1] [2]
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1971–72 [3]
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