Farman F.160

The Farman F.160 was a French heavy bomber of the late 1920s, essentially an attempt by Farman Aviation Works to modernise its tremendously successful F.60 Goliath of the years just after the war. The most noticeable external change was a larger tailfin, and like the Goliath it was a large three-bay biplane of conventional layout with unstaggered wings of equal span. It was first conceived as a heavy night bomber, but most examples built were float-equipped torpedo bombers for the Aeronautique Maritime, which flew about 40 of the F.165 variant and 200 of the F.168. One of the original F.160 night bombers was exported to Italy and one to Japan, and plans to develop airliner versions did not get beyond the prototype stage. The original F.160 had two 370 kilowatt Farman 12We engines.