Dewoitine D.500 - Variants

Variants

D.500.01

First prototype aircraft.

D.500

First production version with Hispano-Suiza 12Xbrs engine with 515 kW (690 hp), armed with 2 × 7.7 mm (.303 in) Vickers machine guns or 2 × 7.5 mm (.295 in) Darne machine guns in the nose, provision for 2 × additional Darnes in the wings. 101 built.

D.501

Re-engined with Hispano-Suiza 12Xcrs engine, armed with a 20 mm Hispano-Suiza S7 cannon between the engine cylinder banks firing through the propeller hub and 2 × wing-mounted machine guns. 157 built.

D.503

The sole D.511 prototype fitted with a 12Xcrs engine with a circular radiator in the nose, the same armament as D.501. First flight 15 April 1935, found to perform worse than D.500. The aircraft was briefly the personal mount of René Fonck.

D.510

Re-engined with Hispano-Suiza 12Ycrs producing 640 kW (860 hp), armed with a 20 mm Hispano cannon and 2 × 7.5 mm (.295 in) MAC 1934 machine guns in the wings. First flight 14 August 1934, 120 built.

D.511

Prototype with D.500 fuselage and tail, smaller wings, cantilever undercarriage, 12Ycrs engine. One prototype built in 1934 but never flown, converted to D.503.

AXD1

The short designation for the single Dewoitine D.510 supplied to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for evaluation in 1935.

Dewoitine Navy Type D Carrier Fighter

Long service designation for the D.510 supplied to the IJNAS in 1935