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Breda Ba.25
The Breda Ba.25 was an Italian two-seat biplane trainer designed and built by the Breda company. It was the most widely used Italian basic trainer of the 1930s.
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Design and development
The first flight took place near Milan in 1931. Initially designed as a single-seat aircraft, the prototype was later converted to a two-seat fuselage. Flight testing of the two-seat variant was successful, and in late 1931 Regia Aeronautica ordered a series of 100 Ba.25 training aircraft. The student and instructor sat in open tandem cockpits, although some versions had a single-bay cockpit.
The initial production order was completed by 1935, but demand for the aircraft increased and production for the Regia Aeronautica totalled 719 by the end of 1938. Many others were produced for export or for private use with different radial engines like the Alfa Romeo Lynx or Walter Castor.
Operational history
The Ba.25 remained in service of the Regia Aeronautica as training aircraft during World War II. Some of the aircraft were seized and handed over to the Allies. Paraguay bought four Breda Ba.25, one of them Ba.25Idro. They were used as primary trainers from 1939 to 1945. [1] [2]
Variants
There were many minor variants:
- Ba.25
- Main production version.
- Ba.25/Lynx
- Fitted with a 149 kW (200 hp) Alfa Romeo Lynx engine.
- Ba.25/D.2
- Fitted with a 179 kW (240 hp) Alfa Romeo D2 engine.
- Ba.25/Mezzo-Asso
- Fitted with a 164 kW (220 hp) Isotta-Fraschini Asso 200 engine.
- Ba.25 Ridotto'
- Reduced-span aerobatic version.
- Ba.25-I (I for Idro)
- Floatplane version (42 built, one for Paraguayan Naval Aviation)
- Ba.26
- Primary trainer with a longer wingspan and Walter NZ 120 engine, prototype only.
- Ba.28
- Export version with Piaggio-built Gnome-Rhône 7K engine for Norway, China and Ethiopia, among others.
Operators
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- Paraguayan Military Aviation used three Ba.25.
- Paraguayan Naval Aviation used one Ba.25Idro.
Specifications (Ba.25)
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General characteristics
- Crew: 2 (student & instructor)
- Length: 8.00 m (26 ft 3 in)
- Wingspan: 10.0 m (32 ft 10 in)
- Height: 2.90 m (9 ft 6 in)
- Wing area: [4] 25 m² (269 ft²)
- Empty weight: 750 kg (1,653 lb)
- Loaded weight: [4] 1,000 kg (2,204 lb)
- Powerplant: 1× Alfa Romeo licence-built Armstrong Siddeley Lynx 7-cylinder radial engine, 164 kW (220 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 205 km/h (110 kn, 127 mph)
- Cruise speed: [4]160 km/h (100 mph)
- Stall speed: [4] 70 km/h (44 mph)
- Range: 400 km (216 nmi, 248 mi)
- Service ceiling: 4,900 m (16,075 ft)
- Rate of climb: [4] to 5,000 m (16,404 ft) 2.87 m/s (566 ft/min-->)
Armament
- None
See also
Comparable aircraft
Designation sequence
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References
Citations
- ↑ Ba.25 entry at the Уголок неба website (Russian)
- ↑ "La Contribución Italiana en la Aviación Paraguaya" by Antonio Luis Sapienza. Author's edition. Asunción. 2007
- ↑ Jackson, Robert, The Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft, Paragon, 2002. ISBN 0-75258-130-9
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Template:Harvnb
Bibliography
- Grey, C.G. (1972). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938. London: David & Charles. ISBN 0715 35734 4.
External links
- Breda Ba.25 entry at the Virtual Aircraft Museum website
- Ba.25 entry at the Уголок неба website (Russian)
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| Records | Flight airspeed record · Flight distance record · Flight altitude record · Flight endurance record · Most produced aircraft |
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