Avia BH-25

The Avia BH-25 was a biplane airliner built in Czechoslovakia in 1926.

BH-25
BH-25J
General information
Type	Airliner
Manufacturer	Avia
Designer	Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn
Primary users	Czechoslovakian Airlines SNNA
Number built	12
History
First flight	1926
Retired	1936

Typical of airliners of its time, it seated five passengers within its fuselage, whilst the pilots sat in an open cockpit above. Of conventional configuration, it was a single-bay bi-plane of equal span and unstaggered wings, with fixed tailskid landing gear. Originally designed for a Lorraine-Dietrich engine, this was changed to a Bristol Jupiter in service. After their withdrawal from airline use in 1936, some were used by the military for a while before finally becoming training targets.

Variants

• BH-25L – with Lorraine Dietrich engine
• BH-25J – with Bristol Jupiter engine

Operators

Avia BH-25 (C-RITA)

Czechoslovakia

• Czechoslovakian Airlines – eight aircraft

Romania

• Royal Romanian Air Force
• SNNA – four aircraft

Specifications (BH-25J)

Avia BH-25L 3-view drawing from Les Ailes May 12, 1927

Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Capacity: 5 pax / 500 kg (1,100 lb) payload
• Fuel capacity: 400 kg (880 lb) fuel and oil
• Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller

Performance

• Time to altitude: 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in 16 minutes; 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in 30 minutes
• Power/mass: 0.1095 kW/kg (0.0666 hp/lb)

Further reading

• Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 86.
• Němeček, Vaclav (1968). Československá letadla (in Czech). Praha: Naše Vojsko.

External links

• airwar.ru