The VEF JDA-10M was a
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
n twin-engine, multipurpose aircraft built in 1939 by
VEF. It remains the only twin-engine aircraft ever built in Latvia. The builder of JDA-10M was
Latvian-American engineer
Jānis Akermanis (John D. Akerman), a professor at the
University of Minnesota.
Design and development
Construction started in 1937, but the first flight of the JDA-10M was on September 4, 1939. After the beginning of the
Second World War it was planned to transform the airplane into a
light bomber
A light bomber is a relatively small and fast type of military bomber aircraft that was primarily employed before the 1950s. Such aircraft would typically not carry more than one ton of ordnance.
The earliest light bombers were intended to dro ...
for military purposes. This work was halted by the
Soviet occupation of Latvia in June 1940. Only one example was built, and its fate remains unknown.
The VEF JDA-10M was of primarily wood construction, with fixed conventional landing gear.
Specifications (JDA-10M)
See also
References
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1930s Latvian military aircraft
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