Ansaldo SVA 9

Fighter, reconnaissance and bomber aircraft, single-engine, biplane, two-seater.

It was an unequal-span biplane with W struts and a wooden stressed-skin truss fuselage, which from the cockpit backwards had a characteristic triangular section.

The numerous variants of the SVA and its long production run make it difficult to reconstruct the aircraft's history (approximately 1,700 units).

The SVA 9 was a dual-control aircraft, unarmed with enlarged wing chord, which had already been on trial since April 1918.

Technical Data:

  • Wingspan: 9.10 m;
  • Length: 8.10 m;
  • Height: 2.65 m;
  • Wing area: 26.9 sq m;
  • Unladen weight: 690 kg; 
  • Total weight: 965 kg;
  • Maximum speed: 219 km/h;
  • Maximum autonomy: 3 hours.

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