Farman F.50

The Farman F.50 was a French twin-engined night bomber built by Farman Aviation Works to replace the single-engined Voisin pusher biplanes then flying with the French air arm. It was an unequal-span biplane with a slab-sided fuselage, twin-wheel main undercarriage and a gunner position in the nose, and it first flew in early 1918 on two Lorraine V-8 engines mounted between the wings. Production stayed below one hundred aircraft because the Armistice came soon after, and by November 1918 three escadrilles had been equipped with 45 of them. The type also gave rise to the F.50P, a conversion with an enclosed cabin for up to five passengers that flew for Compagnie des Grands Express Aeriens between Paris, London and Amsterdam from 1920. Mexico bought thirteen, and a single example went to Japan.