I.Ae. 22 DL


The I.Ae. 22 DL was an Argentine advanced training aircraft designed by the Instituto Aerotécnico in 1943. It had a wooden structure which resembled the North American NA-16.

Development

The I.Ae. 22 DL was a development of the I.Ae. D.L. 21, which was itself developed from the North American NA-16, which was also in service with the Argentine military at that time.
Argentine experience with the NA-16-4P and deteriorating political relations with the US led to the local development of the I.Ae. D.L. 21, which shared the NA-16 fuselage structure. However it proved too difficult to produce and an entirely new design of similar configuration, but structurally different and optimized to available materials was built instead.
It had a wooden structure and a nine-cylinder I.Ae. 16 El Gaucho radial engine with a Hamilton Standard 2M-D-30 metallic propeller.
The prototype flew on 8 August 1944. Approximately 200 aircraft were built. A version with a Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah 25 radial engine and a Rotol constant speed propeller was designated I.Ae. 22-C.

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Surviving aircraft