Avia BH-33
| BH-33 | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Type | Fighter |
| Manufacturer | Avia, PWS (under licence), Ikarus (under licence) |
| Designer | |
| Primary users | Czechoslovak Air Force |
| History | |
| Manufactured | Ca. 110, plus 50 licence-built in Poland and 22 in Yugoslavia |
| First flight | 21 October 1927 |
| Developed from | Avia BH-21 |
The Avia BH-33 was a biplane fighter aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in 1927. It was based on the BH-21J which demonstrated promising results by combining the original BH-21 airframe with a licence-built Bristol Jupiter radial engine. Other than the peculiar Avia hallmark of having an upper wing with a shorter span than the lower, it was utterly conventional, even featuring a tail fin for the first time in a Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn design (previous aircraft had a rudder but no fin).