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Air Force for consideration, and elicited sufficient interest to result in an order for two prototypes to be placed. Upon delivery, one of the aircraft was used for flight tests, while the other was tested on the ground. After nearly a year, an order for 10 aircraft was placed, which were delivered to the air force's pilot training school at
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was a military trainer aircraft developed in Romania in the late 1920s. It was a conventional single-bay biplane with unstaggered wings of equal span. It was equipped with fixed tailskid undercarriage, and the pilot and instructor sat in tandem, open cockpits. The design was submitted to the Romanian
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on a long-distance flight from Bucharest to Saigon between 30 March and 16 April 1932, covering 9,350 km (5,810 mi) in 2 days, 14 hours, and 25 minutes. In another feat, Locotenent-comandor Gheorghe Banciulescu, who had two wooden legs, flew the
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but feature various refinements including a redesigned undercarriage, and another ten similar to these but armed with machine guns for pilot and observer.
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In December 1930, the air force placed an order for 20 more aircraft in two slightly different batches. Ten were to be essentially similar to the
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Apart from these standard production models, a number of "one-off" aircraft were developed, including the
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on a 9,000 km (5,600 mi) tour of 15 European countries over nine days.
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