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Lioré & Olivier H-19T, tested by Air Union near Antibes, 1926
In Test on the Antibes - Ajaccio Route.
Original Air Union Photograph
Strong Paper and photographic Emulsion
Developed in 1926, the LéO H-19 was designed by aeronautical research engineer GORIN, assisted by BELLANGER.
This new flying boat was a single engine biplane, with dual – wood & web – structure.
*Developed under the H-19(T) and H-193 codes, the final commercial version could carry up to six passengers.
Twenty five serial aircrafts were operated at the time on the main routes: nine by Air Union, three by CAF, three by CGA, one by Air Asie, seven by Gnôme-Rhône, one by Société Pyrénées Aviation and one by Société Transatlantique Aérienne.
*The H-194 was an unique raid model (first developement machine), wich made a 28 000 kms return trip from Marignane (France) to Majunga (Madagascar) in 1926.
Taking off from the basin of Berre (northwest of Marseilles, on the territory of Marignane) October 12th 1926, she reached her destination November 21st after twenty stops.
The home flight was made via Lake Victoria, Sudan, Egypt and Crete. January 12th 1927, the silver bird (she was entirely painted white) flown by flight lieutenant BERNARD, landed on the Berre basin again. The global trip took three months, 260 flight hours on over 15 000 nautical miles.
*H-195 is still a mystery :) (all serious infos are welcome)
*Only one LéO H-196 was constructed, with a Gnôme&Rhône 9Ab engine (9 star-shaped cylinders) generating 414 hp.
*Called H-197(S) in her medical transportation version, she flew for the first time November 1928, almost at the same time as *the H-198, the catapult-able model for transatlantic postal freight.
*H-198.2 were three catapult-able liner development machines, with 500 hp Renault engines.
*The H-199, declined in 199.1 and 199.2 versions, was developed by flight research engineer BUCHOLZER in 1930 with tandem engines, but only the second version - equiped with 345 hp Gnôme-Rhône Titan engines - got her certificate of airworthiness.
Used as training seaplane for airline pilots, she will have only 98 flight hours on the 25th of October, 1938.
N.B. Some authors are adding the Seaplane serial number to the generic 19 to obtain a strange name: for example, an Air Asie machine called H-198. It's an extrapolation. Craft is just the #8 in the serial aicrafts model 19T or 193.
Lioré & Olivier H-19T, tested by Air Union near Antibes, 1926
In Test on the Antibes - Ajaccio Route.
Original Air Union Photograph
Strong Paper and photographic Emulsion
Developed in 1926, the LéO H-19 was designed by aeronautical research engineer GORIN, assisted by BELLANGER.
This new flying boat was a single engine biplane, with dual – wood & web – structure.
*Developed under the H-19(T) and H-193 codes, the final commercial version could carry up to six passengers.
Twenty five serial aircrafts were operated at the time on the main routes: nine by Air Union, three by CAF, three by CGA, one by Air Asie, seven by Gnôme-Rhône, one by Société Pyrénées Aviation and one by Société Transatlantique Aérienne.
*The H-194 was an unique raid model (first developement machine), wich made a 28 000 kms return trip from Marignane (France) to Majunga (Madagascar) in 1926.
Taking off from the basin of Berre (northwest of Marseilles, on the territory of Marignane) October 12th 1926, she reached her destination November 21st after twenty stops.
The home flight was made via Lake Victoria, Sudan, Egypt and Crete. January 12th 1927, the silver bird (she was entirely painted white) flown by flight lieutenant BERNARD, landed on the Berre basin again. The global trip took three months, 260 flight hours on over 15 000 nautical miles.
*H-195 is still a mystery :) (all serious infos are welcome)
*Only one LéO H-196 was constructed, with a Gnôme&Rhône 9Ab engine (9 star-shaped cylinders) generating 414 hp.
*Called H-197(S) in her medical transportation version, she flew for the first time November 1928, almost at the same time as *the H-198, the catapult-able model for transatlantic postal freight.
*H-198.2 were three catapult-able liner development machines, with 500 hp Renault engines.
*The H-199, declined in 199.1 and 199.2 versions, was developed by flight research engineer BUCHOLZER in 1930 with tandem engines, but only the second version - equiped with 345 hp Gnôme-Rhône Titan engines - got her certificate of airworthiness.
Used as training seaplane for airline pilots, she will have only 98 flight hours on the 25th of October, 1938.
N.B. Some authors are adding the Seaplane serial number to the generic 19 to obtain a strange name: for example, an Air Asie machine called H-198. It's an extrapolation. Craft is just the #8 in the serial aicrafts model 19T or 193.