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Stampe Vertongen SV.5
Single engine two seat advanced-trainer aircraft.
In order to participate in a Aéronautique Militaire requirement issued in October 1933 for a two-seat training biplane with aerobatic capabilities, the Stampe Vertongen company presented the SV.5 Tornado developed by its designer George Ivanow. The first prototype registered OO-ANO flew for the first time in September 1933. The SV.5-prototype (c/n 1) was presented to King Albert at Evere on 16 October 1933 with Belgian military markings on the fuselage and serial S-1.(For the later AéM production serials between S-23 to S-41 were used, while S-1 also entered service). Competition came from the Belgian companies Renard with the R.34 and LACAB with the T.7 and the British designs Avro 626 and Fairey Fox III and the Italian Breda Ba.25. A sixth contender the Caproni Ca.113 was disqualified as it suffered and accident on arrival. Although the SV.5 was a clear winner for this competition, it was the Avro 626 which was selected for political reasons and a token order for 12 Avro’s followed. Meanwhile, military testing of the SV.5 continued and finally resulted in a first Belgian order for 13 SV.5 trainers (value 3.636.439 Bfr.) at the end of 1935 followed by a second order for 7 aircraft (value 1,976,685 Bfr) in 1936. This biplane of riveted steel tube construction powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Serval IV of 340hp (AéM production) or Serval V engine of 355hp (Latvian order) could be used for flight training, bombing training and aerial photography. It could be armed with a fixed frontal machine gun and another one in the rear cockpit as well as bomb racks under the wings.
In 1936 the Latvian Air Force also placed an order for 10 SV.5 Tornado’s which were equipped with the slightly more powerful Armstrong Siddeley Serval V, a NACA cowling instead of the Townend ring, a simplified main undercarriage and e slightly redesigned horizontal stabilizer.
The majority of the Aéronautique Militaire Belge/Belgisch Militair Vliegwezen SV.5’s were initially delivered to the Ecole de Perfectionnement at Wevelgem by 1936/37. Later on up to 9 SV.5's served with the Ecole d’Aéronautique/Luchtvaartschool at Evere while others served as communications/liaison aircraft in operational squadrons. At the end of April 1940 most of the Ecole d'Aéronautique SV.5 aircraft were transferred to the Schietschool/Ecole de Tir at Oostende-Stene. After the German invasion on 8 May 1940 the remaining aircraft were flown to France from where a number of missions was flown over Belgium causing the loss of a at least two more Stampes. The final 7 Belgian SV-5’s (S-23, S-30, S-31, S-32, S-36, S-40 and S-41) were stored at Pau-Uzein (Fr.) at least until the end of the war... (However, some sources say the a/c were collected by Latvia in 1941, other say they were scrapped on site in 1949) .
C/N
1
S-1
Date In
1933
Date Out
May 1940
History
First prototype SV.5 registered OO-ANO to Stampe & Vertongen, registered S-1 for presentation to King Albert I at Evere on 16 Oct 1933, registration S-1 maintained, brought up to production standards, destroyed at Evere during German bombing raid on 10 May 1940.
C/N
-
S-23
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
To Luchtvaartschool/Ecole d'Aéronautique (Evere)(Cockatoo) - becoming the Centre d'instruction de Sous-Lieutenants de l'Aéronautique (CISLAé) on 10 May 1940, transferred to Schietschool/Ecole de Tir at Oostende-Stene on 28 Apr 1940, evacuated to Pau-Uzein (Fr.), ultimate fate uncertain.
C/N
-
S-24
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
To Luchtvaartschool/Ecole d'Aéronautique (Evere)(Cockatoo), to 9/V/1 Aé (Blue Sioux), crashed at Douy (Châteaudun)(Fr.) during liaison mission on 12 May 1940.
C/N
-
S-25
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
To Ecole de Perfectionnement (Penguin) at Wevelgem airbase, to 7/III/3 Aé (Winged Arrow), crashed at Oostende/Stene airfield on 2 May 1940.
C/N
-
S-26
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
-
History
To Ecole de Perfectionnement (Penguin) at Wevelgem airbase, fate unknown
C/N
-
S-27
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
To Ecole de Perfectionnement (Penguin) at Wevelgem airbase, crashed on take-off from Oostende-Stene on 28 May 1940. Abandoned.
C/N
-
S-28
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
Noted at Grimbergen airfield on 14 May 1940, ultimate fate unknown.
C/N
-
S-29
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
-
History
-
C/N
-
S-30
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
To Luchtvaartschool/Ecole d'Aéronautique (Evere)(Cockatoo) - becoming the Centre d'instruction de Sous-Lieutenants de l'Aéronautique (CISLAé) on 10 May 1940, transferred to Schietschool/Ecole de Tir at Oostende-Stene on 28 Apr 1940, evacuated to Pau-Uzein (Fr.), ultimate fate uncertain.
C/N
-
S-31
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
To Luchtvaartschool/Ecole d'Aéronautique (Evere)(Cockatoo) - becoming the Centre d'instruction de Sous-Lieutenants de l'Aéronautique (CISLAé) on 10 May 1940, transferred to Schietschool/Ecole de Tir at Oostende-Stene on 28 Apr 1940, evacuated to Pau-Uzein (Fr.), ultimate fate uncertain.
C/N
-
S-32
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
To Ecole de Perfectionnement (Penguin), to Luchtvaartschool/Ecole d'Aéronautique (Evere)(Cockatoo) - becoming the Centre d'instruction de Sous-Lieutenants de l'Aéronautique (CISLAé) on 10 May 1940, transferred to Schietschool/Ecole de Tir at Oostende-Stene on 28 Apr 1940, evacuated to Pau-Uzein (Fr.), ultimate fate uncertain.
C/N
-
S-33
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
-
History
To Ecole de Perfectionnement (Penguin) at Wevelgem airbase,
C/N
-
S-34
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
-
History
-
C/N
-
S-35
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
Aug 1938
History
To Ecole de Perfectionnement (Penguin) at Wevelgem airbase, crashed in Hellestraat at Wevelgem on 26 Aug 1938.
C/N
-
S-36
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
To Luchtvaartschool/Ecole d'Aéronautique (Evere)(Cockatoo) - becoming the Centre d'instruction de Sous-Lieutenants de l'Aéronautique (CISLAé) on 10 May 1940, transferred to Schietschool/Ecole de Tir at Oostende-Stene on 28 Apr 1940, evacuated to Pau-Uzein (Fr.); noted at Agen-la-Bayonne (Fr.) in May 1940. to Montauban (Fr.), ultimate fate uncertain.
C/N
-
S-37
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
-
History
To Ecole de Perfectionnement (Penguin) at Wevelgem airbase. Fate Unknown
C/N
-
S-38
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
-
History
To Ecole de Perfectionnement (Penguin) at Wevelgem airbase, on display at the Heizel main hall during the Salon international de l'aéronautique in July 1937, fate unknown.
C/N
-
S-39
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940.
History
To be evacuated by Ecole de Tir to Moerkerke-Waas on 14 Apr 1940, fate unknown.
C/N
-
S-40
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
To Luchtvaartschool/Ecole d'Aéronautique (Evere)(Cockatoo) - becoming the Centre d'instruction de Sous-Lieutenants de l'Aéronautique (CISLAé) on 10 May 1940, transferred to Schietschool/Ecole de Tir at Oostende-Stene on 28 Apr 1940, evacuated to Pau-Uzein (Fr.), ultimate fate uncertain.
C/N
-
S-41
Date In
1936/37
Date Out
May 1940
History
To be evacuated by Ecole de Tir to Moerkerke-Waas on 14 Apr 1940, to Luchtvaartschool/Ecole d'Aéronautique (Evere)(Cockatoo) - becoming the Centre d'instruction de Sous-Lieutenants de l'Aéronautique (CISLAé) on 10 May 1940, transferred to Schietschool/Ecole de Tir at Oostende-Stene on 28 Apr 1940, evacuated to Pau-Uzein (Fr.), ultimate fate uncertain.