Farman A.2

The Farman A.2, formally the Farman F.160 A.2 and named after the French military specification A for reconnaissance and 2 for two-seater, was a French sesquiplane of the 1920s designed as a military reconnaissance and observation aircraft. Only one was built. The open-cockpit tandem two-seater was shown at the 1924 Paris Salon de l'Aeronautique, and it was designed to keep drag low, with a wide-chord wing faired into the top of the fuselage and careful fairing throughout. A single 370 kilowatt Farman 12We W-12 water-cooled piston engine drove it at a recorded 220 kilometres per hour at 5,000 metres. It did not meet performance expectations and was scrapped, and the F.160 designation was later reused for a biplane bomber developed from the Goliath.