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The SET 7 was a military trainer and reconnaissance aircraft that was produced in Romania in the mid-1930s. It was originally designed as a conventional single-bay biplane, with slightly staggered wings, a standard undercarriage with fixed tailskid, and a tandem open-cockpit arrangement for the pilot and instructor or observer. Power was supplied by an
Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar
The Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar was an aircraft engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley. The Jaguar was a petrol-fuelled air-cooled 14-cylinder two-row radial engine design. The Jaguar III was first used in 1923, followed in 1925 by the Jaguar ...
radial engine, and from the outset the aircraft was equipped for wireless and photographic reconnaissance duties.
An armed version followed in 1934, adding a trainable machine gun for the observer and a fixed machine gun for the pilot. This version, the 7K, was powered by a neatly cowled
Gnome-Rhône 7Ksd engine, and the 7KB (fitted with bomb racks) and 7KD were specialised subtypes that followed it. A floatplane version was produced as the 7H.
Variants
*SET 7 - initial unarmed trainer version with
Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar
The Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar was an aircraft engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley. The Jaguar was a petrol-fuelled air-cooled 14-cylinder two-row radial engine design. The Jaguar III was first used in 1923, followed in 1925 by the Jaguar ...
engine (50 built, 1932–1934)
*SET 7K - armed reconnaissance version with
Gnome-Rhône 7Ksd/7Ksf engine (20 built, delivered by August 1936)
**SET 7KB - 7K fitted with
IAR-built Barbieri-type bomb racks (20 built, delivered by September 1937)
**SET 7KD - 7K stripped of most equipment and used for liaison duties (''Divizionar'' - "army division use") (20 built, delivered between October and December 1938)
*SET 7H - floatplane for Romanian Navy
Operators
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Royal Romanian Air Force
The Air Force branch of the Royal Romanian forces in World War II was officially named the (ARR), or the Romanian Royal Aeronautics, though it is more commonly referred to in English histories as the (Royal Romanian Air Force, FARR), or simply ...
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Royal Romanian Navy
The Romanian Navy ( ro, Forțele Navale Române) is the navy branch of the Romanian Armed Forces; it operates in the Black Sea and on the Danube. It traces its history back to 1860.
History
The Romanian Navy was founded in 1860 as a river flo ...
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Transnistrian air section
Specifications (7K)
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1930s Romanian military trainer aircraft
1930s Romanian military reconnaissance aircraft
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Aircraft first flown in 1931