ANBO I

ANBO I
General information
TypePrototype trainer aircraft
ManufacturerKaro Aviacijos Tiekimo Skyrius
Designer
Number built1
History
First flight14 July 1925
Retired1935
Developed into
ANBO II

The ANBO I was a single-seat aircraft developed in Lithuania, proposed as a trainer for the Lithuanian Army. It was a low-wing, braced monoplane of conventional tailwheel configuration. The fuselage structure was of fabric-covered welded steel tube, The wing had a wooden, two-spar structure and was fabric covered but the fuselage, also fabric covered, had a welded steel tube structure.

The first flight took place in 1925. Ten years later the aircraft was sold to the Lithuanian Aviation Museum in Kaunas where it is exhibited today.

Operators

Lithuania

Specifications

Anbo I 3-view drawing from L'Air January 15, 1926
ANBO I exhibited in the Lithuanian Aviation Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania

Data from Les Ailes, November 1925

General characteristics

Performance

References

  1. 1 2 Serryer, J. (5 November 1925). "Le monoplan A.Gustaitis". Les Ailes (229): 2–3.
  2. ↑ "Latvian Air Force Museum, - ANBO I". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ↑ Ogden, Bob (2009). Aviation Museums and Collections of Mainland Europe. Air Britain (Historians) Ltd. p. 357. ISBN 978-0-85130-418-2.

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