The I.Ae. 22 DL was an

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designed by the Instituto Aerotecnico (AeroTechnical Institute) in 1943, with a wooden structure, which resembled the North American NA-16.

Development

The I.Ae. 22 DL was a development of the I.Ae. D.L. 21, which itself was itself developed from the

North American NA-16 The North American Aviation NA-16 was the first trainer aircraft built by North American Aviation, and was the beginning of a line of closely related North American trainer aircraft that would eventually number more than 17,000 examples, notab ...

, at that time in service with the Argentine military. Juan Domingo Perón en el avión IAe22DL

Argentine experience with the NA-16-4P and deteriorating political relations with the US led to the local development of the I.Ae. D.L. 21, which shared the NA-16 fuselage structure. However it proved too difficult to produce and an entirely new design (the I.Ae. D.L. 22) of similar configuration, but structurally different and optimized to available materials was built instead.von Rauch 1983, pp. 14–21 It had a wooden structure, and a nine-cylinder I.Ae. 16 El Gaucho

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with a Hamilton Standard 2M-D-30 metallic

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The prototype flew on 8 August 1944, although some sources give 14 May 1944. Approximately 200 aircraft were built. A version with a Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah 25 radial engine and a

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constant speed propeller was designated I.Ae. 22- C.

Operators

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Surviving aircraft

* A restored example, constructor number 728, is on display marked as Ea-701 at the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina.Dinfia I.Ae.22DL, Ea-701, Museo Nacional de Aeronautica
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Specifications (I.Ae.22 DL)

Notes

Bibliography

* * Burgos, Antonio C

''aeroespacio.com''. Retrieved: 15 October 2009. *"Fabrica Militar de Aviones" (in Spanish). ''Aerospacio'', Buenos Aires, 1977. Article on the 50th anniversary of the "Fabrica Militar de Aviones" listing all the aircraft developed and manufactured there since 1927. *

External links

(in Spanish) {{FMA aircraft IAe022 1940s Argentine military trainer aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft Low-wing aircraft World War II military equipment of Argentina Aircraft first flown in 1944