Farman F.190

The Farman F.190 was a French utility aircraft of the late 1920s and the 1930s. It was a high-wing, strut-braced monoplane of conventional layout, with a fully enclosed cabin for four passengers and a fixed undercarriage with a tailskid. The main production version used a 230 horsepower Gnome et Rhone 5Ba five-cylinder radial engine and 57 were built, while a long series of variants from the F.191 to the F.199 fitted Salmson, Farman, Hispano-Suiza, Renault or Lorraine engines for different customers, including six built for Venezuela. The type sold well as a private aircraft and for air taxi work, and about thirty went to airlines in France and elsewhere in Europe, fifteen of them joining the Air France fleet in 1933 from the smaller companies it had absorbed. An air ambulance version with room for two stretchers was built as the F.197S, and in 1932 a version with a slightly larger cabin, a revised fin and a four-bladed propeller entered production as the Farman F.390. Military users included the air forces of Brazil, Ethiopia, Portugal, Uruguay, Venezuela and the Spanish Republic.