Comte AC-11-V

The Comte AC-11-V was a 1930s Swiss three-seat cabin monoplane produced by Flugzeugbau A. Comte for aerial photography and mapping. The AC-11-V was a high-wing monoplane with a taikskid-conventional landing gear and powered by a Armstrong Siddeley Lynx radial engine.

Design and development

The enclosed cabin had side-by-side seating for a pilot and co-pilot. To allow easy access to the cabin the starboard seat folded to one side. Another moveable seat was mounted on rails running the whole length of the cabin; it could be locked in any position on the rails giving access to the side windows. A window was fitted between the pilots' seats to allow drift readings to be made and a further floor window aft allowed a vertical camera to be used.

Operational history

During the Second World War years one aircraft was used by the Swiss Air Force to make detailed maps of Switzerland.