Farman F.170 Jabiru

The Farman F.170 Jabiru was a single-engine sesquiplane airliner designed and built by Farman Aviation Works and first flown in 1925. It was a single-engine development of the 1923 F.121 Jabiru, built at a time when operators preferred one engine to several because a multi-engine aircraft could not keep flying after an engine failure anyway. The F.170 carried up to eight passengers in a spacious, heated cabin and sat so low on its wheels that crews called it the ventre-a-terre, or belly to the ground. A single 500 horsepower Farman 12 We engine drove a four-bladed propeller. Thirteen F.170 were built, joined by four improved F.170bis with some metal construction and one long-range F.171 meant for the North Atlantic, and they flew for the Societe Generale des Transports Aeriens on the Paris, Cologne and Berlin route.