The UTVA-60 is a

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n light aircraft of the 1960s. First flying in 1959, it was built by

UTVA Utva Aviation Industry (commonly known as UTVA) is a Serbian manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, subsidiary of Yugoimport SDPR, headquartered in Pančevo. History Utva was founded on 5 June 1937 in Zemun, since 1940 located in Pančevo ...

for both the Yugoslavian armed forces and for civilian use.

Development and design

In 1959 the Yugoslav aircraft company

designed and built a single-engined, high-winged light utility aircraft, the UTVA 56, with a prototype making the first flight on 22 April 1959. Testing was successful, but the aircraft was redesigned for production, with a more powerful

Lycoming O-480 The Lycoming O-480 is a family of six-cylinder, horizontally opposed fixed-wing aircraft engines of 479.6 cubic inch (7.86 L) displacement, made by Lycoming Engines. The engine is a six-cylinder version of the four-cylinder Lycoming O-320. Desi ...

engine, and designated the UTVA-60. The UTVA-60 is an all-metal, four-place, strut-braced high-wing

monoplane A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...

. It is fitted with a fixed

conventional undercarriage Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Term ...

which uses cantilevered steel tube struts. Trailing-edge wing flaps are linked to the ailerons, drooping the ailerons when the flaps are lowered to reduce landing speed, while the agricultural version's wing was fitted with slots. The UTVA-60 was used as the basis for the UTVA-65, a specialised agricultural aircraft, which used the wings, undercarriage and tail of the UTVA-60, but with a low-mounted wing. The UTVA-60 was replaced in production by the UTVA-66, a further improved version.Donald 1997, p.887.

Operational history

As well as civil use, the UTVA-60 was used by the Yugoslav Air Force, who received about 35, using them until 1982, while

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received four aircraft.Forsgren, Jan.
Aviation Royale Khmere/Khmer Air Force Aircraft
.

''. 22 April 2007. Retrieved 21 December 2009.Grandolini 1988, p. 43.

Variants

;UTVA-56 :Prototype, powered by a 194 kW (260 hp) Lycoming GO-435 engine.Taylor 1965, p.344.''Flight'' 25 September 1959, p.305. ;UTVA-60-AT1 :Basic four seat utility version. ;UTVA-60-AT2 :Dual control version. ;UTVA-60-AG :Agricultural version. ;UTVA-60-AM :Ambulance version. ;UTVA-60H :Floatplane, powered by a 221 kW (296 kW) Lycoming GO-480-G1H6 engine.

Operators

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Royal Cambodian Air Force The Royal Cambodian Air Force ( km, កងទ័ពជើងអាកាស, Kângtoăp Cheung Akas, ) is the branch of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces which is charged with operating all military aircraft in Cambodia. Organisation The Royal ...

; *

Croatian Air Force The Croatian Air Force ( hr, Hrvatsko ratno zrakoplovstvo or HRZ) is a branch of the Croatian Armed Forces whose primary task is to ensure the sovereignty of the airspace of the Republic of Croatia and to provide aviation support to other branc ...

; *

Khmer Air Force The Khmer Air Force (french: Armée de l'air khmère; AAK), commonly known by its americanized acronym KAF (or KhAF) was the air force component of the Khmer National Armed Forces (FANK), the official military of the Khmer Republic during the C ...

; *

Republika Srpska Air Force The Republika Srpska air force (, ) was the air force of Republika Srpska and was used primarily during the Bosnian war. In 2005, it was integrated into the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. SFOR (NATO Stabilization Force) still plays a la ...

** 92nd Light Multi role Aircraft Squadron ; *

Yugoslav Air Force The Air Force and Air Defence ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздушна одбрана, Ratno vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazdušna odbrana ; abbr. sh-Cyrl-Latn, label=none, separator=/, РВ и ПВ� ...

122nd Hydroplane Liaison Squadron The 122nd Hydroplane Liaison Squadron (''Serbo-Croatian: 122. hidroavijacijska eskadrila za vezu / 122. хидроавијацијска ескадрила за везу'') was an aviation squadron of Yugoslav Air Force formed on July 24, 1949, as ...

(1964–1968) *

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(civil operator) YU-CBA, accident 20.06.1982

Specifications (UTVA-60-AT1)

Notes

References

*Donald, David (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft''. Leicester, UK: Blitz Editions, 1997. . *Grandolini, Albert. "L'Aviation Royale Khmere: The first 15 years of Cambodian military aviation". ''

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'', Thirty-seven, September–December 1988. Bromley, UK:Fine Scroll. . pp. 39–47 .
Sport and Business
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Flight Flight or flying is the process by which an object moves through a space without contacting any planetary surface, either within an atmosphere (i.e. air flight or aviation) or through the vacuum of outer space (i.e. spaceflight). This can be a ...

'', 25 September 1959, p. 305. * Taylor, John W. R. ''Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1965-66''. London: Samson Low, Marston, 1965. *Mondey, David, ''Encyclopedia of The World's Commercial and Private Aircraft'', Crescent Books, New York NY (1981), p. 241

External links

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(in Russian) {{Utva aircraft 1950s Yugoslav civil utility aircraft 60 High-wing aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1959