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Airco DH.9
Land	Storbritannia
Rolle	Bombefly bombefly
Første flytur	Juli 1917
Bygget	4091

Den Airco DH.9 (from de Havilland 9) – also known after 1920 as the de Havilland DH.9 – was a British single-engined biplane bomber developed and deployed during the First World War. The DH.9 was a development of Airco’s earlier successful DH.4, with which it shared many components. These were mated to an all-new fuselage and the BHP/Galloway Adriatic engine, which promised increased performance. Anticipating its usefulness, the type was ordered in very large numbers for Britain’s Royal Flying Corps (RFC).

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Den Airco DH.9 was a British single-engine biplane bomber developed and deployed during the First World War. It was designed by Geoffrey de Havilland for the Aircraft Manufacturing Company (Airco) as an improvement of the earlier Airco DH.4, which had proved successful as a light bomber.
DH.9 hadde et modifisert skrog som flyttet piloten nærmere skytteren/observatøren og bort fra motoren og drivstofftanken. DH.9 brukte imidlertid også en ny motor, Siddeley Puma, som var upålitelig og underdrevet, noe som resulterte i dårlig ytelse og høye tap. Til tross for manglene ble DH.9 produsert i stort antall og tjenestegjorde med flere luftstyrker frem til slutten av 1920-tallet.