IAR 811
Role 2-seat aircraft
National origin Romania
Manufacturer Industria Aeronautică Română
First flight 1949
Number built 1
Variants IAR-813

The IAR-811 was a Romanian trainer aircraft built in the late 1940s.[1] It was the first aircraft designed and built in Romania following the end of the Second World War.[2]

The IAR-811 was designed by a team of designers at the Sovromtractor tractor factory at Brașov (formerly the Industria Aeronautică Română aircraft works) in 1949. It was a single-engined low-wing monoplane of all wooden construction. Its crew sat side by side under an enclosed canopy, and the aircraft was powered by a single 45 kW (60 hp) Train 6T engine. The only example made its first flight on 12 May 1949.[3] It was claimed to be very manoeuvrable, and have good handling, and it was reported that consideration was given to putting the type into production,[2] but the engine was no longer in production. The aircraft was developed into the IAR-813, which used the available and more powerful (120 kW (160 hp) Walter Minor 4 engine.[4]

Specifications

Data from Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905–1974[1]

General characteristics

Performance

References

  1. ^ a b Gugju, Ion; Gheorghe Iacobescu; Ovidiu Ionescu. Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905–1974. Brasov. pp. 222–223.
  2. ^ a b "Post-War Roumanian". Flight. Vol. LVII, no. 2154. 6 April 1950. p. 424.
  3. ^ Vlad 1998, pp. 9–10
  4. ^ Bridgman 1958, p. 214
  5. ^ a b c Bridgman 1952, p. 150
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