Dewoitine D.21

The Dewoitine D.21 was a 1920s French open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage, parasol winged monoplane fighter aircraft.

Design and development

The prototype D.21 was a development of the D.12. The aircraft was license-built in Switzerland (by EKW), Czechoslovakia (by Skoda and known as the Skoda-Dewoitine D.1) and Argentina (by FMA). One Turkish D.21 was fitted with a modified wing and named Orhanelli.

File:Orhaneli aircraft.jpg

Orhanelli; a Dewoitine D.21 fitted with a modified wing for record-breaking flights.

Operational history

Argentina bought seven French-built D.21s, and built another 38 under license by FMA from 1929 to 1932. The type remained in service until 1941. Turkey bought a number, and Czechoslovakia built 25 for their air force.

Variants

D.21 C.1

French Production version, license-built in Argentina and Turkey.

Skoda D.1

Licence manufacture of the Dewoitine D.21 in Czechoslovakia by Skoda;(26 built - included in D.9 total). Škoda L was a licence-built Hispanio Suiza HS-50. Armament only 2 × Template:Cvt Vickers machine-guns

Operators

• Army Aviation Service
• Argentine Naval Aviation

• Gendarmerie (Czechoslovakia)

Paraguay

• Paraguayan Air Force

Switzerland

• Turkish Air Force

Specifications (D.21 C.1)

File:Dewoitine D.21 3-view L'Air May 15,1928.png

Dewoitine D.21 3-view drawing from L'Air May 15, 1928

See also

Related development

• Dewoitine D.25

Related lists

• List of Interwar military aircraft

Further reading

• Sebastian Sequeira, Carlos Cal y Cecilia Calatayud. Aviación Naval Argentina. SS&CC ediciones, Buenos Aires, 1984. Template:ISBN (Spanish)

External links

• Dewoitine D.21, AMILARG - Aviacion Militar Argentina (Spanish) Accessed 2023-03-31
• CAZA BOMBARDEROS DE LA AVIACION NAVAL: DEWOITINE D-21 - HISTARMAR (Spanish) Accessed 2023-04-01