Caproni Ca.100
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Caproni Ca.100 trainer
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Role | Trainer |
Manufacturer | Caproni |
First flight | 1928 |
Primary user | Regia Aeronautica |
Number built | c.700 |
The Caproni Ca.100 was the standard
Design and development
The Ca.100 (nicknamed Caproncino, little Caproni), was based on the
Ca.100s were powered by a variety of engines. The most common of these were the 85 kW (114 hp)
Operational history
The Regia Aeronautica received two prototype and 675 production Ca.100s, built by
Some aircraft were built as civilian tourers,[1] numbering at least eight.[2] Later they were joined on the Civil Register by retired ex-military machines.[2]
There were exports to Peru and Portugal.[1] Twelve Ca.100PRs, a derivative with all-metal structure, powered by a 125 hp (93 kW) Kinner B-5 radial engine were built under licence by Fábrica Nacional de Aviones Caproni Perú, a Peruvian subsidiary of Caproni from 1937.[4][5] The Ca.100PRs remained in service with the Peruvian air force until 1946, when the remaining four aircraft were transferred to the Peruvian Civil Aviation School, where they remained in use until 1956.[6]
Ca.100 was also produced by Caproni's Bulgarian subsidiary as the KB-1 Peperuda (butterfly), with seven aircraft powered by 120 hp (89 kW) Walter NZ 120 engines built in 1932, and a further two Bulgarian-built floatplanes donated to the Bulgarian government by Gianni Caproni.[7][1] They were phased out of Bulgarian service due to problems with the aircraft's wooden structures within two years.[8]
One example of the Ca.100 Idro seaplane version was used to establish a world seaplane altitude record of 5,324 m (17,467 ft) in 1931.[9]
Surviving aircraft
The last flying original landplane Ca.100, I-ABMT is ex-military, MM55194. The Aero Club Como floatplane I-ABOU, ex-MM65156, has been rebuilt after a takeoff collision in 2006, flying again in September 2010. At least one replica also flies.[2][10]
Aircraft on display
The
Floatplane ex-I-DISC and MM56237 is in the
Ex-I-BIZZ and MM56271 is in the Royal Saudi Air Force Museum.[2]
Operators
- Portuguese Air Force - One aircraft.[5]
- Spanish Air Force
Specifications (Gipsy engine)
General characteristics
- Crew: two, pilot and instructor
- Length: 7.30 m (23 ft 11 in)
- Wingspan: 10.00 m (32 ft 10 in)
- Height: 2.75 m (9 ft 0 in)
- Wing area: 24.4 m2 (263 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 400 kg (882 lb)
- Gross weight: 560 kg (1,499 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × de Havilland Gipsy 4-cylinder air-cooled upright inline , 63 kW (85 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 165 km/h (102 mph, 89 kn)
- Range: 700 km (462 mi, 401 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,125 ft)
- Rate of climb: 1.8 m/s (354 ft/min)
See also
- World Aircraft Information Files. London: Bright Star Publishing. pp. File 891 Sheet 09.
Related lists
- List of Interwar military aircraft
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 232.
- ^ ISSN 0262-4923.
- ^ "Caproni Ca.100". Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ Tincopa & Rivas 2016, pp. 204–205.
- ^ a b Air-Britain Archive March 2011, p. 36.
- ^ Tincopa & Rivas 2016, p. 207.
- ^ Bernád 1996, p. 11.
- ^ Nöel & Passingham 1991, p. 44.
- ^ Air-Britain Archive March 2011, p. 32.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-85130-418-2.
- ^ FlyPast. August 2007.
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- Bernád, Dénes (November–December 1996). "Balkan Birds: Thirty-Five Years of Bulgarian Aircraft Production: Part 2". ISSN 0143-5450.
- Nöel, Jean; Passingham, Malcolm (August 1991). "La production aéronautique bulgare: Troisième partie". Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French). No. 261. pp. 42–49.
- "Head-On View No. 37; The Caproni Ca.100". Air-Britain Archive. March 2011. pp. 31–36. ISSN 0262-4923.
- Thompson, Jonathon P. (1963). Italian Civil and Military Aircraft 1930–1945. Aero Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-8168-6500-0.
- Tincopa, Amaru; Rivas, Santiago (2016). Axis Aircraft in Latin America. Manchester, UK: Crécy Publishing. ISBN 978-1-90210-949-7.