Dewoitine D.21

The Dewoitine D.21 was 1920s French open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage, parasol winged monoplane fighter aircraft.

Design and development
The prototype D.21 was a development of the D.12. The aircraft was license-built in Switzerland (by EKW), Czechoslovakia (by Skoda and known as the Skoda-Dewoitine D.1) and Argentina (by FMA). One Turkish D.21 was fitted with a modified wing and named Orhanelli.

Operational history
Argentina bought seven French-built D.21s, and built another 38 under license by FMA from 1929 to 1932. The type remained in service until 1941. Turkey bought a number, and Czechoslovakia built 25 for their air force.

Variants

 * D.21 C.1:French Production version, license-built in Argentina and Turkey.
 * Skoda D.1:Licence manufacture of the Dewoitine D.21 in Czechoslovakia by Skoda;(26 built - included in D.9 total). Škoda L was a licence-built Hispanio Suiza HS-50. Armament only 2 × 7.7 mm Vickers machine-guns

Operators

 * Army Aviation Service
 * Argentine Naval Aviation
 * Gendarmerie (Czechoslovakia)
 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay
 * Paraguayan Air Force
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland
 * Turkish Air Force
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland
 * Turkish Air Force
 * Turkish Air Force