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Vinony's link graph records 111 inbound references to PZL.43, and connects out to Gnome-Rhône Mistral Major, Poland and Bulgaria.
It sits within the topics 1930s Polish bomber aircraft, 1930s Polish military reconnaissance aircraft and Aircraft first flown in 1937.
Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Aircraft.name
- PZL.43
- Aircraft.image
- PZL.43.jpg
- Aircraft.type
- Light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft
- Aircraft.manufacturer
- Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze
- Aircraft.first_flight
- February 1937
- Aircraft.introduction
- 1937
- Aircraft.retired
- 1946 (Bulgaria)
- Aircraft.primary_user
- Bulgarian Air Force
- Aircraft.more_users
- Polish Air Force
- Aircraft.produced
- 1937 – 1939
- Aircraft.number_built
- 54
- Aircraft.developed_from
- PZL.23 Karaś
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- bomber
- Operator
- Polish Air Force
- Based on
- PZL.23 Karaś
- Developer
- PZL
- Manufacturer
- PZL
- Image
- PZL.43.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- total produced
- 54
- Commons category
- PZL.43
- first flight
- 1937-02-00
- service entry
- 1937-00-00
- service retirement
- 1946-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Design and development
- Operational history
- Variants
- Operators
- Specifications (PZL.43B)
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
The PZL.43 was a Polish light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft designed in the mid-1930s by PZL in Warsaw. It was a development of the PZL.23 Karaś. Its main user was the Bulgarian Airforce who called it the Chaika (Чайка, gull).
==Design and development== The standard Polish light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, the PZL.23 Karaś could not be exported because of licence restrictions on the use of the Polish-built (PZL) Bristol Pegasus engine. The PZL.43 was a development of the PZL.23, powered instead by a Gnome-Rhône 14K engine. It was first offered to Romania, but they rejected it in favour of domestic designs. The PZL was more successful in Bulgaria, then reforming their airforce after a period of post-World War I treaty constraints. An order for 12 aircraft was placed in April 1936.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “PZL.43” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.