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The Lioré et Olivier LeO H-180 was a 1920s
French two-seat
flying-boat
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built by
Lioré et Olivier
Lioré-et-Olivier was a French manufacturer of aircraft of the 20th century, founded in 1912 by Fernand Lioré and Henri Olivier.
History
The ''Société de Constructions Aéronautiques d'hydravions Lioré-et-Olivier'' had three factories, loca ...
.
Development
The H-180 first flew in 1928 and was a cantilever high-wing monoplane flying-boat.
Powered by a 120 hp (89 kW)
Salmson 9Ac
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Design and development
After their successful water-cooled radial engines, develop ...
engine strut-mounted above the fuselage.
It had two side-by-side seats in an open cockpit but the following year it was fitted with an enclosed cockpit and re-designated the LeO H-181.
The company intended to build a production batch of ten aircraft but only five H-181s were built.
One aircraft was destroyed and the others finding no buyers were used as test aircraft by the company.
Variants
;H-180:Two-seat touring / training flying boat; 1 built.
;H-181:An enclosed cockpit version, with increased span and longer fuselage; 5 built.
Specifications (H-180)
See also
References
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Flying boats
1920s French civil utility aircraft
H-180
Single-engined pusher aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Engine-over-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1928