Avia BH-16

The Avia BH-16 was a single-seat very light sport aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in 1924. Like other early Avia designs, it was a low-wing braced monoplane of wooden construction. It could be powered by either a 12 kW (16 hp) four-cylinder Vaslin engine or a 19 kW (26 hp) inverted-V twin-Blackburne Tomtit.^[1][2]

BH-16
Role	Sports plane
Manufacturer	Avia
Designer	Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn
First flight	1924

Specifications (Vaslin engine)

Avia BH-16 3-view drawing from NACA-TM-301

General characteristics

• Crew: one pilot
• Length: 5.13 m (16 ft 10 in)
• Wingspan: 9.50 m (31 ft 2 in)
• Wing area: 10.6 m² (114 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 130 kg (287 lb)
• Gross weight: 238 kg (525 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × 4-cylinder Vaslin , 12 kW (16 hp)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 116 km/h (72 mph, 63 kn)
• Range: 500 km (310 mi, 270 nmi)
• Service ceiling: 2,000 m (6,600 ft)
• Rate of climb: 1.0 m/s (200 ft/min)

References

1. Serryer, J. (24 July 1924). "Les avionettes Avia". Les Ailes (162): 2.
2. "Aeroshow at Prague". Flight. XVI (23): 362. 5 June 1924.

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