PWS-24

The PWS-24 was a Polish passenger and postal-communication airplane with a mixed structure, high-wing configuration, with a fixed undercarriage. The drive in the basic version was provided by a single engine Wright Whirlwind J5 with a power of 220 hp. The flight of the prototype took place in 1931, and serial production continued in the years 1933-1935, ending with the production of 11 pieces of this type of aircraft. PWS-24 was created as a grassroots initiative of the Podlasie Aircraft Factory, which planned to create a light communication and passenger plane. In 1932, LOT Polish Airlines became interested in the plane and announced it as the winner of the competition for the successor of the Junkers F-13 machine. Already in 1932, PWS plants created a modernized version of the aircraft, designated PWS-24 bis. The modernization was based on the use of a much more powerful engine Pratt-Whitney Wasp Junior TB with 400 HP and hull reinforcement. In the period 1938-1939, aircraft of this type were slowly withdrawn from service and handed over, e.g. Maritime and Colonial League. One aircraft of this type probably broke through to Romania during the September campaign in 1939.