DH.16
Let an agent identify the DH.16 as an aircraft type, relay its origin, design and service history from aviation references, and keep it apart from other de Havilland and Airco designs with similar names.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Type identity Which aircraft this is.
Designation
Name and maker.
Designation
Name and maker.
- Who designed and built the DH.16, and when did it first fly? definition
- How does the Airco designation relate to later de Havilland numbering? boundary
Lineage
Derivation from the DH.9A.
Lineage
Derivation from the DH.9A.
- What was changed from the DH.9A to make an airliner? provenance
- Which later Airco or de Havilland airliners followed it? provenance
Design Layout and construction.
Cabin
Passenger accommodation.
Cabin
Passenger accommodation.
- How many passengers did the cabin hold, according to reference sources? measurement
- Where was the pilot seated relative to the passengers? definition
Powerplant
Engines fitted.
Powerplant
Engines fitted.
- Which engines were fitted to which airframes? provenance
- Which reference gives the engine details? provenance
Service Airline use.
Operators
Who flew it.
Operators
Who flew it.
- Which airlines operated the DH.16 and on which routes? provenance
- How many were built, according to reliable sources? measurement
Fate
Losses and retirement.
Fate
Losses and retirement.
- What happened to the airframes, and were any lost in accidents? provenance
- Does any example survive? boundary
Records Archives and identification.
Registrations
Civil register entries.
Registrations
Civil register entries.
- Which civil registrations were carried by DH.16 airframes? provenance
- Which register is authoritative for them? provenance
Images
Photographic identification.
Images
Photographic identification.
- Which features settle a DH.16 identification in a photograph? action
- How can it be told from a DH.9A conversion? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- DH.16/Eagle, DH.16/Lion
What it is Filled
The Airco DH.16 is a British single-engine biplane airliner of 1919, developed from the DH.9A day bomber with an enclosed cabin for a small number of passengers and a separate open cockpit for the pilot, and used by early commercial airlines in the years after the First World War.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent identify the DH.16 as an aircraft type, relay its origin, design and service history from aviation references, and keep it apart from other de Havilland and Airco designs with similar names.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Enclosed passenger cabin, unlike the DH.9A bomber it came from
- Pilot placed in the open, unlike later fully enclosed airliners
- A small production run, unlike the bomber types of the era
- DH.16 is a type designation, not the de Havilland company or a single airframe
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Invent production numbers, registrations or performance figures.
- Attribute an accident to the wrong airframe or operator.
- Present the type as airworthy or current.
Only with a human decision
- Authenticating a surviving artefact or archive item.
May
- Relay the history of the type and cite the aviation reference used.
- Help identify the type in historic photographs from described features.
Moral aspects Filled
- Accident histories involve real victims and must be stated accurately.
- Historical records should credit designers and operators correctly.
Who is affected
- Families of those involved in accidents
- Aviation historians
- Museums and archives
Owners Filled
Steward
The original manufacturer as designer; today no operator, with historians and archives as keepers of the record.
Master systems
- Historic civil aircraft registers
- Aviation museum and archive collections
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q67486068 - registry parent class
related
- airliner
- biplane
- Airco DH.9A - its bomber ancestor
- Airco DH.18 - a later Airco airliner
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.dh-16
- Wikidata: Q408451 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q408451)
- Wikidata: Q408451 registry item
Direct properties required Filled
- kind: biplane airliner note
- first flight: 1919 note
- origin: United Kingdom note
Recognition required Filled
- Single-engine two-bay biplane of the late 1910s
- Enclosed passenger cabin with side windows plus a separate open pilot's cockpit
- Wing and tail layout closely resembling the DH.9A
- A wooden single-engine biplane with a deep fuselage containing an enclosed passenger cabin with windows, and a separate open cockpit for the pilot.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- identify the type and its designer
- relay its derivation from the DH.9A
- summarise its airline service
- distinguish it from neighbouring DH designations
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Several airframes were lost in accidents, as was common for airliners of the period
- Confusing type, variant and individual airframe histories
- Mixing up Airco and later de Havilland company designations
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Early civil aircraft registration under the United Kingdom's aviation authority of the period
Context of use required Filled
- Carrying a few fare-paying passengers on early commercial air routes.
- production airliners
- variants with different engines
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q408451: DH.16 - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Airco DH.16 - general description of the item
Open questions
- How many airframes were built, given that sources differ?
- Should engine variants be separate entries?
- How should individual airframes be linked to the type?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q408451/spec.json