STAMPE S.V.4B UNITED KINGDOM

Stampe-Vertongen SV.4 was a Belgian training and liaison aircraft from the interwar period, World War II and the post-war period. The machine was built in a biplane system with a fixed undercarriage. The drive was provided - in the SV.4B version - by a single engine de Havilland Gipsy Major X with a power of 145 HP. The prototype flight took place in 1933. About 1,050 aircraft of this type were built in the course of serial production. The SV.4 was designed as a grassroots initiative by the Stampe-Vertongen aviation company, initially (in the period up to 1939) as a civilian machine, intended as a training machine for flying clubs and an aerobatic aircraft. Production during World War II was suspended, but in 1948 it was resumed, and in the post-war period, SV.4 aircraft were produced primarily for the use of the armed forces of individual countries - for example Belgium. In the course of the entire production, four development versions of the SV.4 aircraft were created, marked A, B, C and D, which differed "only" in power units whose maximum power oscillated around 140-180 HP. SV.4 machines were also licensed in France and exported to Great Britain and the Belgian Congo.