FBA Avion Canon

The FBA Avion Canon (aka FBA 1 Ca2) was a two-seat cannon-armed biplane fighter, designed and built in France from 1916. due to unsatisfactory performance, development of the Avion Canon was abandoned.

During 1916, Louis Schreck, chief designer of Franco-British Aviation Company (FBA), developed a two-seat cannon armed fighter, by mounting the biplane wings from the FBA H flying boat on an aerodynamically clean wooden monocoque fuselage, with conventional tailskid undercarriage. Power was supplied by a 150 hp (110 kW) Hispano-Suiza 8A V-8 water-cooled engine mounted as a pusher between the upper and lower mainplanes. After initial testing the engine was replaced with a 175 hp (130 kW) Hispano-Suiza 8Aa. Performance was unsatisfactory and further development was cancelled.^[1]

Data from Air International:Fighter A to Z: FBA Avion Canon^[1]

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Length: 10.13 m (33 ft 3 in)
• Wingspan: 14.5 m (47 ft 7 in)
• Height: 3.35 m (11 ft 0 in)
• Wing area: 41 m² (440 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 761 kg (1,678 lb)
• Gross weight: 1,166 kg (2,571 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 8Aa V-8 water-cooled piston engine, 130 kW (175 hp)
• Propellers: 2-bladed wooden fixed-pitch pusher propeller

Performance

• Maximum speed: 133 km/h (83 mph, 72 kn) at sea level; 123 km/h (76 mph; 66 kn) at 2,000 m (6,600 ft)
• Endurance: 3 hours
• Time to altitude: 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in 8.55 minutes

Armament

• Guns: 1x 37 mm (1.46 in) Hotchkiss cannon

• Green, William; Swanborough, Gordon (1994). The Complete Book of Fighters. Godalming, UK: Salamander Books. p. 202. ISBN 1-85833-777-1.

• Parmentier, Bruno (8 December 1997). "F.B.A. H". Aviafrance (in French). Paris. Retrieved 5 October 2018.