The Breda Ba.19 was an Italian single-seat

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aircraft developed as an air force trainer in 1928.

Design and development

The Breda Ba.19 was a single-bay, unequal-span, unstaggered biplane of conventional configuration which seated its pilot in an 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 ...

. A few Ba.19s were produced as two-seaters with a second open cockpit in tandem with the first.

Operational history

The Ba.19s were used throughout the 1930s for display flights by the '' Squadriglia di Alta Acrobazia Aerea'', performing formation aerobatics. Breda 19 MM70019 as I-ABCT

Operators

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'' **'' Squadriglia di Alta Acrobazia Aerea''

Specifications

References

;Notes ;Bibliography * Angelucci, Enzo. ''The Rand McNally Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft, 1914–1980''. San Diego, California: The Military Press, 1983. . * Taylor, Michael J. H. ''Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation.'' London: Studio Editions, 1989, p. 195.

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