The Breguet 16 was a bomber biplane produced in France toward the end of World War I.
The design of the Breguet 16 was essentially a scaled-up version of Breguet’s highly successful 14.
A conventionally configured biplane with two-bay, unstaggered, equal-span wings.
Trials in 1918 proved promising, and mass production by several French manufacturers, under licence from Breguet, was planned for 1919.
These plans were discarded upon the Armistice, but more limited production was revived in the early 1920s as the French Air Force began a program of modernisation.
Variants
Bre.16Bn.2
Night bomber version.
Specifications
Crew
Two
Length
9.55 m (31 ft 4 in)
Wingspan
16.96 m (55 ft 8 in)
Height
3.32 m (10 ft 11 in)
Wing area
75.5 m2 (813 sq ft)
Empty weight
1,265 kg (2,789 lb)
Gross weight
2,200 kg (4,850 lb)
Powerplant
1 × Renault 12Fe,
224 kW (300 hp)
Performance
Maximum speed
160 km/h (99 mph, 86 kn)
Range
900 km (559 mi, 486 nmi)
Service ceiling
4,600 m (15,090 ft)
Armament
1 × trainable 7.7 mm (.303 in) Lewis Gun in observer’s cockpit
