Farman F.500

The Farman F.500 Monitor was a Franco-Belgian two-seat training aircraft of the 1950s. Farman had earlier built the Stampe SV.4 under licence, and with Stampe's co-operation designed a two-seat training monoplane from SV-4 components. The prototype, the Monitor I, first flew on 11 July 1952 as a cantilever low-wing monoplane of mixed construction with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage and two crew in tandem under a continuous canopy, powered by a 140 horsepower Renault 4Pei engine. The production Monitor II first flew on 5 August 1955 with all-metal wings and a Salmson-Argus engine, and the Monitor II specification gives a 164 kilowatt Salmson 8As-04 inverted vee piston engine and a maximum speed of 270 kilometres per hour. The Belgian company Stampe et Renard also built it as the SR.7B Monitor IV.