Hispano Aviación HA-200

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HA.200
HA-200 in flight
Type: Jet trainer
Design country:

SpainSpain Spain

Manufacturer:

Hispano Aviacion

First flight:

August 12, 1955

Commissioning:

1962

Production time:

1962-1971

Number of pieces:

212 (90 in Egypt)

Front view of the HA-200
The HA-200 from the Messerschmitt Foundation
The HA-220 Super Saeta , classified as a fighter-bomber,  was the last version produced, and the propulsion system and armament were improved.

The HA-200 Saeta (arrow) was a twin- engine trainer and light ground attack aircraft produced by the Spanish company Hispano Aviación SA

history

The machine was intended as the successor to the HA-100 Triana, which never went into production, and the American North American T-6 Texan . The main components of the HA-100 were used in the design. It was designed by a German-Spanish team under the direction of Willy Messerschmitt , who was working as a consultant in Spain at the time.

The first flight of the first prototype took place on August 12, 1955 from Sevilla San Pablo , the second on January 11, 1957. The pilot was Fernando Juan de Valiente. The drive consisted of two Turboméca Marboré II engines. The machine was armed with two 7.7 mm machine guns. The Spanish Ministry of Aviation then ordered ten pre-production aircraft, whose flight tests began in 1961 and lasted until 1965.

The HA-200A series was intended for export. Of a planned series of 90 pieces that were to be built under license at Heluan in Egypt, 67 were manufactured under the designation "Al Kahira" (winner). Five of the machines from the pilot series, which were sold to the Egyptian Air Force in 1959, converted to the HA-200B version and equipped with a 20 mm cannon, served as a template . In the Six Day War , they probably were not used since the Israeli air force destroyed most of the Egyptian aircraft already on the ground. Machines of this type were used in the fight against the Polisario guerrillas in December 1974 in the Spanish Sahara colony .

The machines were first stationed at the flight school in Matacan , later also in Villanubla (near Valladolid ) in the C-10 version with Marboré VI engines.

The Hispano Aviacion Ha-200E Saeta was an improved version of the HA-200D. 25 of them were built and 40 of them were modernized to this level. They were called "C-10" and "C-10B". Propulsion (now Marbore VI with 4.7 kN thrust) and armament (now 12.7 mm Breda-SAFAT) had also been reinforced. Versions C-10B and A-10B are actually the same aircraft. The name changed in 1978: "C" for 'Caza' (hunting) became "A" for 'Ataque' (ground combat).

The last version, the HA-220 Super Saeta , a single-seater, was no longer used in combat and was stationed in Moron de la Frontera from February 1976. A dozen of these machines have been exported to the United Arab Republic (including a license build agreement).

All other series (90 aircraft in total) served in the Spanish Air Force .

A total of 102 pieces were built in different versions in Spain (211 worldwide): HA-200R-1, HA-200A, HA-200B, HA-200D and HA-200E. There were also 25 HA-220s.

The last machines of the Spanish Air Force were decommissioned in 1982. At the moment about 20 of them are still airworthy worldwide. The Messerschmitt Foundation has a copy operated by the Messerschmitt Flight Museum .

One of these machines crashed during a Spanish air show in May 2013 and was destroyed. The pilot was killed.

Technical specifications

Although the HA-200 had a conventional all-metal construction, it was equipped with an electrically adjustable horizontal stabilizer, hydraulic retractable landing gear and a pressure-ventilated cockpit. Compared to its excellent aerodynamic flight characteristics, which were comparable to those of the Fouga Magister (as the pilots Valiente and Prico Santacruz showed at the Aerosalon in Le Bourget in 1965 compared to the Fiat G.91 with the pilot Donati), the equipment of the HA-200 was rather below average .

Parameter Data
crew 2
length 8.97 m
span 10.93 m
height 2.85 m
Wing area
Wing extension
Empty mass 1830 kg
Takeoff mass 3650 kg
Top speed 655 km / h
Service ceiling 12,000 m
Climb performance 17 m / s
Range 1500 km
Engines two Turboméca Marboré II-A engines; 3.97 kN (400 kp) each thrust
Armament two machine guns and up to 1500 kg bombs or unguided rockets

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : HA-200 Saeta  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FliegerRevue May 2009, p. 67, data sheet.
  2. ↑ Accident in Spain: Historic machine crashes during an air show. In: Spiegel Online . May 5, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 .