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The Letov S-31 was a fighter aircraft produced in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s in a number of variants. All of the aircraft had metal tubular framing and fabric covering with a metal engine cowling.
The first flight of the definitive S.231 version was on March
17, 1933. After testing at the Czech flight facility at
Prague-Lethany, modifications were undertaken to improve the
machine's performance. It entered production the following year and
began equipping Czech fighter units in June 1936. The machines
remained in front line fighter status with the Czechoslovak Air
Force until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939.
Historical records are very vague, but apparently none of these
machines were ever in combat with the far superior German aircraft
during the German invasion or with any Allied aircraft during World
War II when the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia and controlled of
the Czech Air Force.
A few of these hopelessly obsolete Letov S.231s were still
serving as trainers and as secondary fighters for the small Czech
Air Force during the early months of World War II. The only
recorded combat seen by any Letov S.231 fighter was in the service
of the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.
While the S.31, S.131, S.231, and S.431 had engines of 480 to
680 hp, the S.331 had a Walter K14 engine with 900 hp. This
powerful engine gave it extremely high speed and outstanding
performance for an aircraft of the early 1930s.
In May 1935, the aircraft established a new Czechoslovak altitude
record of 34,941 feet (10,650 m).
The sole S.331 and almost all of the S.231s were sold to representatives of the Spanish Republican government. The S.231s fared poorly in the Spanish Civil War. The operational performance and ultimate fate of the S.331 is unrecorded
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