Blériot 135 Explained
135 |
Type: | Airliner |
First Flight: | 19 July 1924 |
Introduction: | 1924 |
Number Built: | 2, including one conversion |
Developed Into: | Blériot 155 |
The Blériot 135 (or Bl-135) was a French airliner of the 1920s, a development of the Blériot 115 with more powerful, radial engines. One of the two built was a converted 115, the other new. Both served with Air Union on their Paris–London route from mid-1924.
Variants
- Bleriot 135
Four-engined airliner.
- Bleriot 136
Projected five-seat day-bomber version. Not built.Operators
- France
References
- Book: Taylor, Michael J. H. . Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation . 1989 . Studio Editions . London . 162 .
- Barfoot, John. "R.E.8 Pilot: Lieutenant William Lefevre Oxley Parker13 Squadron, RFC." The '14–'18 Journal 2006. Sydney: The Australian Society of World War 1 Aero Historians, 14.
- aviafrance.com