PZL.16

PZL · Poland · first flew 1932 · airliner

The PZL.16 was a Polish small passenger aircraft designed in 1931 and 1932 by Stanisław Prauss at PZL in Warsaw. It remained a prototype.

Recognition (WEFT)

W — Wings	High-mounted, elliptical
E — Engines	1 × piston, nose-mounted
F — Fuselage	7.95 m fuselage
T — Tail	Conventional

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Small Polish passenger monoplane with a braced high elliptical wing
Closed cabin for a pilot and four passengers, with doors on the left
Nine-cylinder radial in a Townend ring and a fixed tailwheel undercarriage with teardrop wheel covers

A braced high-wing monoplane with an elliptical wing, a closed cabin for five and a radial engine in a Townend ring. It is not a fighter and has no gull wing.

Specifications

The PZL.16 has a length of 7.95 m (26 ft).
It has a wingspan of 14.1 m (46 ft).
Its maximum speed is 200 km/h (124 mph).
Typical crew: 1 + 4 passengers.

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History

It was ordered by the Polish Ministry of Communications as a four-passenger aircraft, and used the wing, tail, landing gear and engine of the PZL Ł.2 liaison aircraft. The only prototype flew at the beginning of 1932.

Variants

Only the prototype was built. The PZL.17 fast mail plane was a preliminary design based on it, but remained on paper.

Where you'll see it

It was to compete with the PWS-24 and Lublin R-XVI as a successor to the Junkers F.13 at LOT Polish Airlines, but it crashed in April 1932 during tests because the ailerons had been assembled wrongly. Work stopped afterwards.

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