Blériot 105

The Blériot 105 was a large biplane passenger aircraft built by Louis Blériot in the mid-1920s and derived from the SPAD S.45, the four-engine airliner shown at the 1921 Paris Salon. The specifications recorded for it give a crew of one and room for eighteen passengers, a length of 15.69 metres, a wingspan of 26.84 metres, a gross weight of 5,500 kilograms and four Hispano-Suiza 8Fb V-8 inline piston engines of 220 kilowatts (300 horsepower) each, good for a maximum speed of 154 kilometres per hour and a service ceiling of 2,900 metres. After the First World War the company generally used the Blériot name for its larger multi-engined aircraft and the SPAD name for its smaller single-engined ones.