Ikarus 214
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The Ikarus 214 was a military aircraft produced in Yugoslavia in the early 1950s. Originally intended as a light reconnaissance-bomber (first prototype flight in 1949), it was produced as a trainer and transport aircraft Ikarus 214D when the flight testing of the prototype revealed it to have insufficient performance for the role. The Ikarus 214D first flew in . The 214 was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with twin tail
Twin tail
A twin tail is a specific type of vertical stabilizer arrangement found on the empennage of some aircraft. Two vertical stabilizers — often smaller on their own than a single conventional tail would be — are mounted at the outside of the aircraft's horizontal stabilizer...
and retractable tailwheel undercarriage. The twin engines were mounted on nacelles on the wings, and originally Ranger SVG-770s were fitted, although this was changed to the Pratt & Whitney R-1340
Pratt & Whitney R-1340
|-See also:* Pratt & Whitney Wasp series* Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior* Pratt & Whitney R-1535 Twin Wasp Junior* Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp-Bibliography:...
-AN-1 in production.