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{{Short description|Romanian fighter and trainer aircraft}}
{{Infobox aircraft
 |name = IAR 14
 |image = IAR 14.png
 |caption = 
 |type = Fighter-trainer aircraft
 |manufacturer = [[Industria Aeronautică Română]] (IAR)
 |designer = 
 |first_flight = June [[1933 in aviation|1933]]
 |introduction =
 |retired = 
 |produced = 20
 |number_built =
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 |primary_user = [[Forţele Aeriene Regale ale României|Royal Romanian Air Force]]
 |more_users =
 |developed_from = [[IAR 12]]
 |variants =
}}

The '''IAR 14''' is a [[Romania]]n low-wing monoplane fighter-trainer aircraft designed before [[World War II]].

==Design and development==
After rejection of [[IAR 12]], Romanian officials did not want to discourage eventual national aircraft production. Therefore, in early 1933, an unofficial message was forwarded from top levels to Brasov, essentially indicating that a small number of fighter-trainers would be purchased by the air force. The I.A.R. team immediately began to work on a new type, designated I.A.R. 14, still based on the experience gained with previous designs

The airplane was designed by [[Industria Aeronautică Română|IAR]] design bureau in 1933 and was an evolution from the [[IAR 12]] prototype. It was<ref name="JAWA38"/> a  cantilever low-winged monoplane with a spatted main undercarriage with V-form legs and a single, open cockpit over the wing.  The rectangular section fuselage was  of mixed metal-wood configuration, with the front half covered by duralumin sheets and the rear part with pine plywood.  The tail had been modified once more and the control surfaces were balanced. The pilot's head rest was not fitted with the anti-crash pylon, typical to the precedent prototypes. The engine was mounted on welded steel bearers attached to a duralumin fireproof bulkhead.  The wings were built around twin duralumin spars and pine and plywood ribs and had plywood leading edges.  The centre section, let into the fuselage underside was duralumin covered, outer sections and ailerons fabric-covered.  The fixed tail was built of pine and plywood-covered, the moving surfaces duralumin with fabric cover.

The aircraft was equipped with the [[IAR LD 450]] powerplant, produced under license by IAR, that also equipped the [[IAR 12]]. The first flight took place in June 1933. In September 1933, an order for 20 aircraft was placed.

==Operators==
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*[[Forţele Aeriene Regale ale României|Royal Romanian Air Force]]

==Specifications (IAR 14)==
[[File:IAR-14.png|frameless|right|upright=1.5]]
{{Aircraft specs
|ref=''Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1938'' <ref name ="JAWA38">{{cite book |title=Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1938 |editor1-last=Grey |editor1-first=C.G. |year=1938 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & company, ltd |location=London |editor2-last=Bridgman|editor2-first=Leonard |page=230c}}</ref>
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|fuel capacity={{cvt|230|L|USgal impgal}}
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|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=[[IAR LD 450]]
|eng1 type=W-12 water-cooled piston engine
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|eng1 hp=450
|eng1 note=([[Lorraine 12Eb]])

|prop blade number=2
|prop name=[[Ratier]] wooden fixed-pitch propeller
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|endurance=2 hours 10 minutes
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|time to altitude={{cvt|5000|m}} in 10 minutes 27 seconds
|wing loading kg/m2=76.5
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|guns=2 x 7.7 mm Vickers machine-guns in the nose of the aircraft firing through airscrew.
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==See also==
{{aircontent|
|related=
*[[IAR 12]]
|similar aircraft=
*[[Boeing P-26]]
*[[Dewoitine D.500]]
*[[Avia BH-3]]
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Bibliography==
*{{cite journal |last1=Cortet|first1=Pierre|title=Les chasseurs I.A.R: à la mode "Jockey" des années 30, mais en Roumanie (2)|journal=Le Fana de l'Aviation |date=June 1976 |issue=79 |pages=10–13 |issn=0757-4169 |language=fr|trans-title=The I.A.R Fighters: In the Jockey Style of the Thirties, but in Romania, Part 2}}

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[[Category:1930s Romanian fighter aircraft]]
[[Category:IAR aircraft|14]]
[[Category:Low-wing aircraft]]
[[Category:Single-engined tractor aircraft]]
[[Category:Aircraft first flown in 1933]]
[[Category:Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear]]