ANBO I

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|image=Anbo1.jpg

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|type=Prototype trainer aircraft

|manufacturer=Karo Aviacijos Tiekimo Skyrius

|designer=Antanas Gustaitis

|first_flight= 14 July 1925

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|retired=1935

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|developed_into=ANBO II

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The ANBO I was a single-seat aircraft developed in Lithuania, proposed as a trainer for the Lithuanian Army. It was a low-wing, braced monoplane of conventional tailwheel configuration. The fuselage structure was of fabric-covered welded steel tube, The wing had a wooden, two-spar structure and was fabric covered but the fuselage, also fabric covered, had a welded steel tube structure.

The first flight took place in 1925. Ten years later the aircraft was sold to the Lithuanian Aviation Museum in Kaunas where it is exhibited today.

Operators

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Specifications

File:Anbo_I_3-view_L'Air_January_15,_1926.png

File:LAM 2008-09 Anbo-1.jpg in Kaunas, Lithuania]]

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|ref=Les Ailes, November 1925

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|empty weight kg=190

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|endurance=4 hr

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  • Take-off distance: {{convert|30|m|ft|abbr=on}}
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References

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{{cite journal |last=Serryer |first=J. |date=5 November 1925 |title=Le monoplan A.Gustaitis|journal=Les Ailes|issue=229|pages=2–3|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6568261x/f2 }}

{{cite web|url=http://www.lam.lt/old/istorija/karo_aviacija/gustaicio/anbo1/nfra1en.htm |title=Latvian Air Force Museum, - ANBO I |access-date=12 May 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927074530/http://www.lam.lt/old/istorija/karo_aviacija/gustaicio/anbo1/nfra1en.htm |archive-date=27 September 2007 }}

{{cite book |title=Aviation Museums and Collections of Mainland Europe |last= Ogden |first=Bob |year=2009|publisher= Air Britain (Historians) Ltd|page=357 |isbn=978-0-85130-418-2}}

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Further reading

  • {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London }}

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