The Loire 11 was a French

France

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 three-seat general purpose monoplane

Monoplane

A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with one main set of wing surfaces, in contrast to a biplane or triplane. Since the late 1930s it has been the most common form for a fixed wing aircraft.-Types of monoplane:...

 designed and built by Loire Aviation of St. Nazaire.

Design and development

The Loire 11 was the first original design by the company and was designed to meet a requirement for a general purpose transport for operation in the French colonies. It was a strut-braced high-wing monoplane with three-seats and powered by a 300 hp Lorraine Algol radial engine. Only two prototypes were produced in 1930 and the project was abandoned in 1931 when the type failed to interest the French government.