Amiot 120

what is it?

The Amiot 120 was a family of single-engine biplane bomber aircraft designed and produced by the French aircraft manufacturer SECM-Amiot. The Amiot 120 was designed during the early to mid-1920s. As a result of a design to incorporate a high proportion of metal in its construction, years of detailed studies and testing, overseen by French officials, were conducted in advance of the detailed design phase.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 21.5 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 205 km/htop speed
• range 1,000 kmwithout refuelling
• size 4,200 kgmax take-off weight

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 101 years ago, in 1925.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 21.5 m: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 1,000 km: 6× Amsterdam to Brussels.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1925

number built

—

role

bomber aircraft

engines

1× Lorraine-Dietrich 18Kd

crew

3

length

13.7 m

wingspan

21.5 m

height

5.2 m

max take-off weight

4,200 kg

top speed

205 km/h

range

1,000 km

ceiling

6,200 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.