Dewoitine D.21


The Dewoitine D.21 was 1920s French open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage monoplane fighter aircraft.

Design and development

The prototype D.21 was a development of the D.12. The aircraft was license-built in Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Argentina. One Turkish D.21 was fitted with a modified wing and named Orhanelli.

Operational history

Argentina bought seven D.21s, and built another 58 under their own licence. Turkey bought a number, and Czechoslovakia built 25 for their air force.

Variants

;D.21 C.1:French Production version, license-built in Argentina and Turkey.
;Skoda D.1:Licence manufacture of the Dewoitine D.21 in Czechoslovakia by Skoda;. Škoda L was a licence-built Hispanio Suiza HS-50. Armament only 2x Vickers machine-guns

Operators