Aero A.101

A.101
General information
Type	Light bomber Reconnaissance aircraft
Manufacturer	Aero Vodochody
Number built	95
History
Manufactured	1930s
First flight	12 December 1934[1]

The Aero A.101 was a biplane light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft built in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. 30 A.101s were built for the Czechoslovak Air Force in 1935–1936. The Spanish Civil War resulted in the surviving 28 aircraft being sold to the Spanish Republican forces in 1937, but a ship carrying some of the A.101s was captured by the Nationalists on the way to Spain, resulting in the type being used by both the Republican and Nationalist sides of the war. 65 more examples of a revised version, the Ab.101, were built for the Czechoslovakian Air Force from 1937, and served until the German invasion in March 1939.