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The Avia BH-10 was a single-seat
aerobatic sports plane built in
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
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in 1924, based on the
Avia BH-9
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The Avia BH-9 was a twin-seat sports plane built in Czechoslovakia in 1923, based on the BH-5. As with other developments in the BH-1 lineage, the BH-9 was a low-wing braced monoplane that accommodated the pilot and passenger in tande ...
, which was in turn developed from the
BH-5 and
BH-1. It was easily visually distinguished from the BH-9 by the tall anti-roll pylon added behind the open
cockpit
A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a Pilot in command, pilot controls the aircraft.
The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the ...
in order to protect the pilot in the event that the aircraft flipped over or crashed while inverted. 21 copies of the aircraft were built, 10 of which were bought by the
Czechoslovakian Army as a training aircraft and operated under the designation B.10.
![Avia BH-10 OK-AVO (8190729405)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Avia_BH-10_OK-AVO_%288190729405%29.jpg)
Specifications
See also
References
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* Němeček, V. (1968). ''Československá letadla''. Praha: Naše Vojsko.
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1920s Czechoslovakian sport aircraft
BH-10
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1924