WesWorld

Types Operated:
- Ripon C-2
- Fanaero OU1F-2 Alpaca (1936)
- Valdivia Twin Condor (1936)
- Constelación Royal Condor
- Cessna AT-17 Bobcat

Transports purchased in the early 1930s from Atlantis. Out of service by 1940.

Fanaero OU1F-2 Alpaca Utility Aircraft
The Fanaero Alpaca is a small, short take-off and landing (STOL) monoplane designed to serve as an Army liaison and spotting aircraft as well as a light civilian "bush plane". The Alpaca is designed for easy maintenance in the field as well as ruggedness in the air and while landing.

Formerly Valdivia Single Condor.

General characteristics
Length: 28.5 feet
Wingspan: 44 feet
Height: 8 feet
Wing area: 275.15 ft²
Weight: 1,200 pounds
Crew: One pilot, three passengers
Powerplant: De Havilland Gipsy Minor (90hp), Gipsy Major (130hp), Gipsy Six (200hp), or Canadian Orenda engines

Performance:
Speed: 87 knots (100mph)
Rate of climb: 600 feet per minute
Ceiling: 15,000 feet
Range: 250-300 miles (engine dependent)
Remarks: STOL, parasol wing, taildragger

T1C Constelación Twin Condor Utility Aircraft
The Condor is a twin-engined, high-winged aircraft designed for use off extremely short or rough airfields, and in all weather conditions. The aircraft, nicknamed "TwinCon" or "Condorito", has a short take-off and landing roll. In the short time since its introduction, the Condor has become one of the most successful planes ever built in Chile, receiving orders from LAN, Fuerza Aérea de Chile, the Chilean Department of Geosurvey, and numerous other small aircraft operators. Three Serie-200 Twin Condors became the first aircraft to offer regularly-scheduled passenger and cargo air service in Antarctica for the Antarctic Research Consortium, and two Serie-410 aircraft were purchased by France for use in aerial survey of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Production History:
- Serie-100 (1936): Initial design, production ended 1939.
- Serie-200 (1937): Improved Serie-100, production from 1937-1941.
- Serie-300 (1940): New flaps, improved fuselage, new flight controls. Production from 1940-1941.
- Serie-400 (1941): All-metal fuselage, new engines.
- Serie-410 (1941): Serie-400 with lengthened wings and French Clerget diesel radials: the "African Condor".
- Serie-425 (1947): Serie-400 with Austral Malacara turboprop engines.

Quoted

Constelación Twin Condor, Serie-100 Utility Aircraft
(Serie-200 and Serie-300 approximately similar.)
General characteristics
- Crew: 1-2
- Passengers: 18
- Length: 47 feet
- Wingspan: 59 feet
- Height: 16 feet
- Wing area: 410 ft²
- Empty weight: 5,520 pounds
- Loaded weight: 10,000 pounds
- Powerplant: 2x Gipsy Six (200hp), or Canadian Orenda engines

Performance:
- Maximum speed: 150 knots (172mph)
- Max Range: 700 nautical miles (engine dependent)
- Service ceiling: 18,000 feet
- Rate of climb: 7 ft/s (2.13 m/s)

Quoted

Constelación Twin Condor, Serie-400 Utility Aircraft
General characteristics
- Crew: 2+
- Passengers: 20
- Length: 52 feet
- Wingspan: 65 feet
- Height: 17.5 feet
- Wing area: 422 ft²
- Empty weight: 6,500 pounds
- Loaded weight: 11,750 pounds
- Powerplant: 2 × 715hp FMA radials

Performance:
- Maximum speed: 180 knots (207 mph / 333 kph)
- Max Range: 900 miles
- Service ceiling: 7,500 meters / 24,600 feet
- Rate of climb: 7.5 ft/s (2.29 m/s)

Armament (Optional):
- 1 × .30cal or .50cal machine gun in dorsal hatch

Notes:
N/A

[SIZE=4]T2C Constelación Royal Condor Airliner[/SIZE]
The Royal Condor is a high-winged four-engine airliner capable of carrying up to twenty-two passengers. The designers at Constelación Aviation were seeking to build a native Chilean airliner, but did not feel their company could compete with the various foreign-built airliners with their increasing size, capacity, comfort and speed. As a result, Constelación decided to build an airliner intended to operate off smaller runways which the newer, larger airliners are not able to service (many Chilean runways are shorter in any case). Though the prototype Royal Condor performed fairly well, in October 1937 the prototype stalled out in midair and pancaked during landing tests (fortunately without casualties). The designers spent most of summer '37-'38 working on the flaps, finally contracting the designer of the "Fowler flaps" to design a complicated double-flap arrangement. The plane finally entered service in March 1938. One plane has been ordered as a presidential transport, while the remaining orders have been made by civilian airlines.

[SIZE=3]General characteristics[/SIZE]
- Crew: 2
- Passengers: 16-22
- Length: 60 ft (18.3m)
- Wingspan: 76 ft / 23.2m
- Height: 19 ft / 5.8m
- Wing area: 645 ft² / 59.9m²
- Empty weight: 6,613.9 lbs (3,000 kg)
- Loaded weight: 10,472 lbs (4,750 kg)
- Powerplant: 4x de Havilland Gipsy Twelve 12 piston engines, 525 hp

[SIZE=3]Performance:[/SIZE]
- Maximum speed: 250 mph / 402 kph (217 knots)
- Max Range: 1,600 mi (2,574 km)
- Service ceiling: 23,000 ft (7,010 m)
- Rate of climb: 7 ft/s (2.13 m/s)

[SIZE=3]Notes:[/SIZE]
N/A

[SIZE=4]Cessna AT-17 Bobcat[/SIZE]

[SIZE=3]General Characteristics[/SIZE]
Crew: five
Length: 32 ft 9 in (9.98 m)
Wingspan: 41 ft 11 in (12.78 m)
Height: 9 ft 11 in (3.02 m)
Wing area: 295.0 ft² (27.41 m²)
Empty weight: 3,500 lb (1588 kg)
Loaded weight: 5,700 lb (2585 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 6,062 lb (2,755 kg)
Powerplant: 2 × Jacobs R-755-9, 245 hp (183 kW) each

[SIZE=3]Performance[/SIZE]
Maximum speed: 195 mph (314 km/h)
Cruise speed: 175 mph (282 km/h)
Range: 750 miles (1207 km)
Service ceiling: 22,000 ft (6705 m)

[SIZE=3]Order History:[/SIZE]
24 planes ordered from Cessna in Q1/1940. 8 delivered for Chilean Navy as light transports; 16 delivered to FACh as twin-engine trainers and liaison aircraft.