The I.Ae. 22 DL was an Argentine advanced training aircraft designed by the Instituto Aerotécnico (AeroTechnical Institute) in 1943. It had a wooden structure which resembled the North American NA-16.
Development The I.Ae. 22 DL was a development of the I.Ae. D.L. 21, which was itself developed from the North American NA-16, which was also in service with the Argentine military at that time.
Argentine experience with the NA-16-4P and deteriorating political relations with the US led to the local development of the I.Ae. D.L. 21, which shared the NA-16 fuselage structure. However it proved too difficult to produce and an entirely new design (the I.Ae. D.L. 22) of similar configuration, but structurally different and optimized to available materials was built instead.von Rauch 1983, pp. 14–21
It had a wooden structure and a nine-cylinder I.Ae. 16 El Gaucho radial engine with a Hamilton Standard 2M-D-30 metallic propeller.
The prototype flew on 8 August 1944. Approximately 200 aircraft were built. A version with a Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah 25 radial engine and a Rotol constant speed propeller was designated I.Ae. 22-C.
Operators
Argentine Air Force Argentine Naval Aviation
Surviving aircraft
A restored example, constructor number 728, is on display marked as Ea-701 at the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina.Dinfia I.Ae.22DL, Ea-701, Museo Nacional de Aeronautica Accessed 28 August 2012 |url-status=dead
Specifications (I.Ae.22 DL)
See also
Footnotes
References
Bibliography
Burgos, Antonio C. "Los 75 años de la Fábrica Militar de Aviones"(in Spanish). aeroespacio.com. Retrieved: 15 October 2009. "Fabrica Militar de Aviones" (in Spanish). Aerospacio, Buenos Aires, 1977. Article on the 50th anniversary of the "Fabrica Militar de Aviones" listing all the aircraft developed and manufactured there since 1927.
Further reading
External links
Development and Specifications (in Spanish)