Farman F.120

The Farman F.120 was a family of French multi-engine monoplanes built by Farman Aviation Works, flown both as commercial airliners and as military bombers and nicknamed Jabiru after a Latin American stork. It was a fixed-undercarriage monoplane with two, three or four engines depending on the variant, an unusually broad-chord low-aspect-ratio wing and a deep fuselage, and the trimotor had its centreline engine mounted high. Farman designed it to meet the Aero Club of France rules for its 1923 commercial aircraft contest, and after its first flight in 1923 it won the Grand Prix des Avions de Transports and its 500,000 franc prize. It carried up to nine passengers on the Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam route of Farman's own airline and with Danish Air Lines, and served until the late 1920s.