Avia LM-5 Aviastar / Lombardi LM-5 Aviastar

Designed by Pieraldo Mortara and first produced in 1945 by Azionaria Vercellese Industrie Aeronautiche / A.V.I.A., the LM-5 Aviastar two-seat light cabin monoplane was taken over in 1947 be Francis Lombardi & C.

The Aviastar is powered by a 60 hp C.N.A. D.4 engine, but a Continental C85 may be installed.

Engine: 60 hp C.N.A. D.4
Wingspan: 26 ft 5 in
Length: 20 ft 2 in
Height: 7 ft
Empty weight: 726 lb
Loaded weight: 1232 lb
Max speed: 118 mph
Cruise: 102.5 mph
Service ceiling: 16,400 ft
Range: 580 mi

Avia LD-40

The Avia LD-40, designed and built by the former Avia factory of the Czechslovak nationalised aircraft industry in 1954, is a four-seat cabin monoplane of all-metal construction and powered by a 105 hp Walter Minor 4-III engine. A feature is the reverse tricycle undercarriage, the normal nosewheel being replaced by a wheel mounted immediately aft of the wing trailing edge. The main wheels are mounted well forward below the wing and, on the gound, the Avia LD-40 remains in flying attitude.

The LD-40 accommodates four people on two side-by-side bench-type seats, and the cockpit canopy slides backwards.

Avia Akciova Spolecnost Pro Prumysl Letecky B-35 / B-135

B-35

The first prototype Avia B-35 fighter fuselage featured a screwed and riveted steel-tube-structure, covered by fabric. From the cockpit forwards was covered by removable aluminium sheet plates. The wings comprised two wooden longerons, wooden skeletal structure and covered by a thin alclad sheet. Aircraft`s performance was influenced by the fix hooded undercarriage.

The first prototype was flight-tested during September 1938. Sgt. Kavalec lost his life in the first prototype.

B-35

Only three prototypes of the fixed-undercarriage-B-35 fighter attaining a maximum speed of 495 km/p/h were built. The B-135 was the production version of B-35 with metal wing and retractable undercarriage. The B-135 was completed after the Germans occupied the Czech and Moravian Lands on March 15, 1939. Twelve planes of this type as well as the B-135 licence was bought by a Bulgarian-pro-Nazi regime in 1941.

Engine: Avia Hispano Suiza 12 Ycrs, 750 hp
Propeller: two-blade wooden or composite
Maximum speed: 495 kph
Climb rate: 13 m/s
Range: 550 km
Service ceiling: 8500 m
Armament: two synchronized machine guns

Avia Akciova Spolecnost Pro Prumysl Letecky BH-11

A 1923 development of BH-9 with wooden wings partially covered by plywood, and overall canvas. The fuselage had plywood covering and aluminum cowling. Two-seat sport aircraft

A BH – 11 won the famous cup Coppa d’Italia. The Czech military used the BH-11as a trainer or courier.

Engine: Walter NZ, 60 hp
Wingspan: 9.72 m
Length: 6.64 m
Empty weight: 351 kg
Max speed: 155 kph
Ceiling: 4500 m
Range: 600 km