The Farman F.160 was a heavy bomber aircraft developed in France in the late 1920s. It was essentially an attempt by Farman Aviation Works to modernise its tremendously successful F.60 Goliath design of the immediately postwar years. The most noticeable external difference was the larger tailfin of the new aircraft. Like its predecessor, it was a large three-bay biplane of conventional configuration with unstaggered wings of equal span. Initially conceived as a heavy night bomber, most examples built were float-equipped torpedo bombers for the Aéronautique Maritime, which operated some 40 of the F.165 variant and 200 of the F.168. One of the original F.160 night bombers was exported to Italy, and one to Japan. Plans to develop airliner versions did not progress past the prototype stage.
One airliner with 2x 360 kW (480 hp) Gnome-Rhône 9Akx engines and one bomber similar to the F.160, powered by 2x 370 kW (500 hp) Farman 12Wers engines.
F.162
One prototype airliner with 2x 360 kW (480 hp) Gnome-Rhône 9Akx engines.
Liron, Jean (1984). Les avions Farman. Collection Docavia. Vol. 21. Paris: Éditions Larivière. OCLC 37146471.
Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 379. ISBN0-7106-0710-5.
World Aircraft Information Files. London: Bright Star Publishing. pp. File 894 Sheet 15. ISBN1-156-94382-5.
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