Prajadhipok
The Prajadhipok (Thai: ประชาธิปก), officially designated B.ThO.1 (Thai: บ.ทอ.๑) and later B.Kh.5 (Thai: บ.ข.๕), was a Siamese single-seat biplane fighter. It was the second indigenous Siamese aircraft design and the first fighter aircraft. Lieutenant Colonel Luang Neramit Baijayonta designed and oversaw construction of the aircraft in 1929, which was named Prajadhipok (Democrat) for the then reigning monarch King Prajadhipok (Rama VII). It was the second aircraft designed and built in Siam and the first Siamese designed and built fighter, designated Fighter Type 5. However it remained experimental and production does not seem to have ensued, possibly due to the death of the designer shortly after the first flight. The aircraft was still in service at the start of World War II.
Summary from Wikipedia, photo via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA.
- Manufacturer
- Royal Thai Air Force
- Category
- Fighters
- Country of origin
- Thailand
Specifications
- Powerplant
- Curtiss water-cooled inline engine
- Engines
- 1
- Seats
- 1
- Number built
- 1
Specifications are approximate and may vary by variant. Compiled from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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