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The Lorraine-Hanriot LH.10 was a family of training
monoplanes built in
France in the early 1930s, the most widely produced and well-known member of which was the LH.16, later known simply as the Hanriot H.16. It was a conventional parasol-wing monoplane with fixed
tailskid undercarriage
Undercarriage is the part of a moving vehicle that is underneath the main body of the vehicle. The term originally applied to this part of a horse-drawn carriage, and usage has since broadened to include:
*The landing gear of an aircraft.
*The ch ...
, the main units of which were mounted on
outriggers attached to the
wing struts. The pilot and instructor sat in tandem open
cockpits.
Early members of the family all had
radial engines, but the definitive LH.16 of 1933 had an
inline engine within a neat
cowling. This type was evaluated by the ''
Armée de l'Air'' and an initial order for 60 machines was placed. This was soon amended to just 15 in the original trainer configuration, plus another 29 modified as
observation aircraft with a mounting for a trainable
machine gun in the rear cockpit. Following a brief career in military service, the H.16s were turned over to the ''Aviation Populaire'' for use as trainers.
Variants
* LH.10 - initial version with
Lorraine 5Pa engine (2 built)
* LH.11 - version with Lorraine 5Pb engine (2 built)
** LH.11bis
* LH.12 - version with
Salmson 9A
Between 1920 and 1951 the Société des Moteurs Salmson in France developed and built a series of widely used air-cooled aircraft engines.Gunston 1986, p. 158.
Design and development
After their successful water-cooled radial engines, developed ...
c engine (1 built)
* LH.13 - version with Lorraine 5Pb engine (5 built)
* LH.16 - definitive version with
Renault 4Pdi engine (15 built)
** H.16/1 - armed observation version of H.16 (29 built)
Operators
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French Air Force
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Specifications (LH.16)
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1920s French civil trainer aircraft
L.010
Parasol-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930