Hirtenberg HS.9

HS.9 and HS.16
HS.9
Role two-seat touring monoplane
Manufacturer Hopfner, Hirtenberg
Designer Theodor Hopfner
First flight 1932
Number built ca. 40

The Hirtenberg HS.9 was an Austrian two-seat touring or training aircraft of the early 1930s.

Design and development

A derivative of the Hopfner HS-5/28 via the Hopfner HS-8/29, the HS.9 was a parasol wing monoplane with a fixed tailskid landing gear and room for two occupants in tandem open cockpits, and first flew as the Hopfner HS-9/32 in 1932, powered by a de Havilland Gipsy I engine. Production versions had Siemens Sh 14 engines with NACA cowlings. A single example of a refined version with an uncowled Siemens engine was flown in 1935 as the Hopfner HS-9/35, shortly before the Hopfner company went bankrupt.

When Hopfner's assets were purchased by Otto Eberhardt Patronenfabrik, production continued of both de Havilland- and Siemens-powered aircraft under the Hirtenberg brand.

Variants

  • HS-9/32 - Original version by Hopfner
  • HS-9/35 - developed version of HS-9/32
  • HS.9 - Production aircraft with a Siemens Sh 14a piston engine.
  • HS.16 - military trainer version of HS.9

Operators

 Austria

Specifications (HS.9A)

Data from British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 3.[1]

General characteristics

  • Crew: 2
  • Length: 8.05 m (26 ft 5 in)
  • Wingspan: 10.972 m (36 ft 0 in)
  • Empty weight: 568.8 kg (1,254 lb)
  • Gross weight: 948 kg (2,090 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × de Havilland Gipsy Major , 90 kW (120 hp)

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 190 km/h (118 mph, 103 kn)

References

  1. ^ Jackson, A.J. (1974). British civil aircraft 1919-1972 Volume 3 (2nd ed.). London: Putnam. p. 369. ISBN 978-0-370-10014-2.

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hopfner HS.9.
  • The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aircraft. London: Orbis Publications. 1982–1985. p. 2173.