FMA I.Ae. 22nd

FMA I.Ae. 22 DL
Type:	Trainer aircraft observation aircraft
Design country:	Argentina
Manufacturer:	Fábrica Militar de Aviones
First flight:	May 17, 1944
Commissioning:	1946
Number of pieces:	206

The I.Ae. 22 DL was a trainer aircraft made by the Argentine manufacturer Fábrica Militar de Aviones .

history

The I.Ae. 22 DL was the further development of the I.Ae. 21 DL , which itself was developed from the North American NA-16 , which was serving the Argentine military at the time. The Argentine experience with the NA-16 and the deterioration in political relations with the USA led to the in-house development of FMA I.Ae. 21 DL . The DL 21 had the same fuselage construction as the NA-16, which, however, turned out to be too difficult for series production, since not all materials were available due to the Second World War , which is why a completely new fuselage construction was necessary.

construction

The machine is a fabric-covered wooden structure, which was designed as a low-wing aircraft with retractable tail wheel landing gear and was powered by an I.Ae. 16 El Gaucho nine-cylinder radial engine with 340 kW was driven. Teachers and students sat one behind the other in a closed cockpit. The rear seat could be rotated so that a moving machine gun firing backwards could be operated from this seat. The prototype first flew on May 17, 1944 or August 8, 1944 (unfortunately the sources do not agree on this). Towards the end of series production, instead of the I.Ae. 16 El Gaucho engines imported Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah -25 engines of 350 kW were used, resulting in a slight increase in output. These models were given the designation I.Ae. 22C .

Military use

 Argentina

• Fuerza Aérea Argentina
• Armada Argentina

Technical specifications

Parameter	Data
crew	2
length	9.2 m
span	12.6 m
height	2.84 m
Wing area	23.19 m²
Empty mass	1,520 kg
Max. Takeoff mass	2,220 kg
Cruising speed	226 km / h
Top speed	290 km / h
Service ceiling	6000 m
Range	1100 km
Engines	1 × I.Ae. 16 El Gaucho , nine-cylinder radial engine with 340 kW
Armament	In each wing there was a 7.65 mm machine gun, at suspension points under the wings and the fuselage, bombs or rockets could be carried as an observation aircraft a movable machine gun was also attached at the end of the cockpit

Preserved copies

• One copy is in the Museo Nacional de Aerónautica in Morón .

See also

• List of aircraft types

literature

• Article on the 50th anniversary of the “Fabrica Militar de Aviones” in the magazine “Aerospacio” No. 399, Buenos Aires, 1977.
• Ricardo Sigal Fogliani. Blindados de Argentinos, Uruguay y Paraguay. - Ayer y Hoy Ediciones, 1997. - С. 80-81. - 200 с. - ISBN 9-87958-327-2 .

Web links

Commons : I.Ae. 22 DL  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Three-sided view on drawingdatabase.com. Retrieved May 11, 2016
• Avion Argentino I.Ae. 22 DL on taringa.net (Spanish), accessed May 11, 2016
• I.Ae. 22 (DL 22) from clubiame.com.ar (Spanish), accessed May 11, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ by Rauch, Georg; Veres, David L. (March 1983). "Argentina's Wooden Warriors". Air Classics (Challenge Publications) 19 (3): pp. 14-21
2. ↑ Data from airwar.ru (ru), accessed on May 11, 2016