Aero A.32

Aero A.32
Incomplete A.32 in the Finnish museum
General information
Type	Reconnaissance – bomber
Manufacturer	Aero
Primary user	Czechoslovak Air Force Finnish Air Force
Number built	116
History
Introduction date	1928
First flight	1927
Retired	1944

The Aero A.32 was a biplane built in Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s for army co-operation duties including reconnaissance and tactical bombing. While the design took the Aero A.11 as its starting point (and was originally designated A.11J), the aircraft incorporated significant changes to make it suited for its new low-level role.^[1]

Like the A.11 before it, the A.32 provided Aero with an export customer in the Finnish Air Force, which purchased 16 aircraft in 1929 as the A.32IF and A.32GR (which spent most of their service lives as trainers). They were assigned numbers AEj-49 – AEj-64 and were used until 1944. At least one aircraft has survived, AEj-59 is on the show of the Päijänne-Tavastia Aviation Museum.

A total of 116 of all variants were built.