Aero A.101 Explained

The Aero A.101 was a biplane light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft built in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s.

Design and development

The Aero A.101 was an attempt to improve the Aero A.100 by enlarging it and fitting it with a more powerful engine. However, even with 33% more power, performance was actually inferior, and the Czechoslovak Air Force was not interested in the type. Production did result when 50 were ordered by Spanish Republican forces for use in the Spanish Civil War. Some of these aircraft were captured by Nationalists while en route and used against their original buyers.^[1]

Local demand eventually was forthcoming, and a re-engined version was produced as the Ab.101.

Operators

• Czechoslovakian Air Force

Slovakia

• Slovak Air Force (1939-1945)

• Spanish Republican Air Force^[2]

• Spanish Nationalist Air Force

Bibliography

• Cerda . Juan Arraez . Les Aero A-101 en Espagne . Avions: Toute L'Aeronautique et Son Histoire... . May 2003 . 122 . 47–56 . fr.
• Book: Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War: Volume Seven - Bombers and Reconnaissance Aircraft. 1967. Macdonald. London.
• Kučera . Pavel . Vraný . Jiří . Monografie: Aero A-101/Ab-101: Část I . Letectví a Kosmonautika . 1988 . LXIV . 18 . 710–712. 0024-1156. cs.
• Kučera . Pavel . Vraný . Jiří . Monografie: Aero A-101/Ab-101: Část II . Letectví a Kosmonautika . 1988 . LXIV . 19 . 750–752. 0024-1156. cs.
• Kučera . Pavel . Vraný . Jiří . Monografie: Aero A-101/Ab-101: Část III . Letectví a Kosmonautika . 1988 . LXIV . 19 . 789–792. 0024-1156. cs.

Notes and References

1. http://www.elgrancapitan.org/portal/index.php/articulos/guerra-civil-espanola/1293-la-ayuda-material-a-la-republica La ayuda material a la República Española
2. Web site: Aircraft that took part in the Spanish Civil War . 2015-01-10 . 2015-02-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150205085135/http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/drnash/model/Spain/did.html . dead .