The BAT F.K.24 Baboon was a British two-seat training
biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
produced by
British Aerial Transport Company Limited of
London during
World War I.
Design and development
Using experience gained designing the
Bantam, aircraft designer Frederick Koolhoven (assisted by
Robert Noorduyn
Robert Bernard Cornelis Noorduyn (April 6, 1893 – February 22, 1959) was a Dutch-born American aircraft designer and manufacturer. He is best known for the Noorduyn Norseman, a legendary Canadian bush plane produced in the 1930s to 1940s an ...
) designed an elementary
trainer, a two-bay biplane known as the F.K.24 Baboon.
The aircraft had a flat-sided
fuselage and an
uncowled 170 hp (127 kW)
ABC Wasp engine. Six aircraft were planned but only one was built in July 1918.
The only notable act was when it won the Hendon Trophy Race over a 20-mile (32-km) circuit in July 1919 flown by
Christopher Draper.
[''Flight'' 31 July 1919, pp.1021-1022.] The Baboon was scrapped in 1920.
Specifications (F.K.24 Baboon)
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Koolhoven aircraft
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1910s British military trainer aircraft
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Aircraft first flown in 1918