The PWS-19 was a Polish reconnaissance and bomber aircraft prototype of the 1930s.
Only one prototype was built.
The PWS-19 was constructed in 1930 in order to replace the French-designed bombers Potez 25 and Breguet 19 in the Polish Air Force.
It was a development of the PWS-17, which remained unbuilt. Main designers were Zbysław Ciołkosz and Antoni Uszacki.
It was planned to be produced in two variants: reconnaissance PWS-19A2 and bomber PWS-19B2.
It was a conventional design, a strutted high-wing monoplane with quite elegant silhouette, open cockpits and fixed landing gear.
It was fitted with double tailfins to obtain a good field of defense fire.
In 1934 Antoni Uszacki designed a smaller plane basing on the PWS-19, designated PWS U-6, with G-1620 Mors 400 hp engine.
It participated in a contest for an army cooperation plane but lost against RWD-14 Czapla and was not built.
Mixed construction high-wing (parasol) monoplane.
A fuselage of a steel frame, covered with duralumin in front section and canvas in mid and rear sections.
Two-spar wings of wooden construction, plywood covered.
Stabilizers, rudder and elevator of metal construction, canvas covered.
Twin vertical tailfins.
Crew of two (pilot and observer/gunner) in open individual cockpits.
Conventional fixed landing gear, with a rear skid.
The plane was fitted with RKL/D radio and camera.
Engine: 9 cylinder air-cooled radial Pratt & Whitney Hornet T2 in front, with a Townend ring (there were optional Bristol Jupiter VII or Bristol Pegasus).
Two-blade metal propeller of a fixed pitch.
Fuel tank 420 L in a fuselage, dropped in emergency.
Armament: single fixed front-mounted 7.7 mm Vickers machinegun with an interrupter gear, in the right fuselage side, single 7.7mm Vickers on a ring mounting of the observer.
Up to 250 kg bombs (maximum bomb size – up to 50 kg).
