The Aero A.101 was a
biplane
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light bomber
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The earliest light bombers were intended to dro ...
and
reconnaissance aircraft
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built in
Czechoslovakia during the 1930s.
Design and development
The Aero A.101 was an attempt to improve the
Aero A.100
The Aero A.100 was a biplane light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft built in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. It was the final step in a design lineage that extended back to the Aero A.11 a decade earlier. A.100s remained in service throughout ...
by enlarging it and fitting it with a more powerful engine. However, even with 33% more power, performance was actually inferior, and the
Czechoslovak Air Force was not interested in the type. Production did result when 50 were ordered by
Spanish Republican
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forces for use in the
Spanish Civil War. Some of these aircraft were captured by Nationalists while en route and used against their original buyers.
Local demand eventually was forthcoming, and a re-engined version was produced as the Ab.101.
Operators
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Czechoslovakian Air Force
The Czechoslovak Air Force (''Československé letectvo'') or the Czechoslovak Army Air Force (''Československé vojenské letectvo'') was the air force branch of the Czechoslovak Army formed in October 1918. The armed forces of Czechoslovakia ce ...
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Slovak Air Force (1939-1945)
The Slovak Air Force, known since 2002 as the Air Force of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic ( sk, Vzdušné sily Ozbrojených síl Slovenskej republiky), is the aviation and air defense branch of the Slovak Armed Forces. Operating 23 aircr ...
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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.
Initially divided into two branches: Military Aeronautics ('' Aeronáutica M ...
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Spanish Nationalist Air Force
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Other places
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Specifications (A.101)
See also
References
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External links
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