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
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- bomber
- Operator
- Polish Air Force
- Based on
- PZL.23 Karaś
- Developer
- PZL
- Manufacturer
- PZL
- Image
- PZL.43.jpg
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- total produced
- 54
- Commons category
- PZL.43
- first flight
- 1937-02-00
- service entry
- 1937-00-00
- service retirement
- 1946-00-00
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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.