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Baen Avionics is an aircraft design and production company based in Faneria active in both the military procurement and civilian flight spheres. Founded in 1936 as a wartime aircraft producer, Baen sells civilian craft direct-to-consumer, to airline companies, and directly to the Fhainnin government and approved foreign states.
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Baen Avionics is an aircraft design and production company based in Faneria and active in both the military procurement and civilian flight spheres. Its founder, Kenneth Baen, was a hobbyist since the early 1910s who found sucess designing biplanes for the revolutionary government, earning him a state stipend to co0ntinue his work as well as an engineering staff. This informal arrangement morphed into the National Experimental Air Company in 1920, but Baen eventually broke off from the NEAC in 1927 to found Baen Avionics. While the NEAC developed into [[Ginearált Aeirbreach|General Airworks]], Baen designs, builds, and sells both civilian and military craft direct-to-consumer, to airline companies, and directly to the Fhainnin government and approved foreign actors/states. Due to its predominance in the Fhainnin military market, expansion into air transit through Baen Air International, its continued production of luxury supersonic transport and cargo aircraft, and its large helicopter sector, Baen Avionics with its numerous subsidiaries included is the fourth largest aircraft company in the world by income; it additionally controls a large section of the world rotor aircraft market.


Baen is known for it proclivity towards experimental aircraft designs such as delta wing, variable sweep wing, and flying wing aircraft, particularly in its role as a military supplier. It currently supplies several larger sweep-wing aircraft to the Fhainnin government as well as heavy strike drones, though it has not won state air superiority fighter design competitions since the 1980s due to preference for the state-owned company [[Ginearált Aeirbreach]] as well as the cumulative additional maintenance associated with a large fleet of sweep-wing craft.
Baen is known for it proclivity towards experimental aircraft designs such as delta wing, variable sweep wing, and flying wing aircraft, particularly in its role as a military supplier. It currently supplies several larger sweep-wing aircraft to the Fhainnin government as well as heavy strike drones, though it has shied away from variable-geometry airframes since the 1980s due to the cumulative additional maintenance associated with a large fleet of sweep-wing craft. The state-owned company [[Ginearált Aeirbreach]] is the other major supplier of Fhainnin military aircraft, and the two companies have competed bitterly for contracts since the production of Baen's modern line of delta-wing air superiority fighters soundly defeated GA's interceptor jet program.


== Baen Air International ==
== Baen Air International ==
In addition to production, Baen Avionics owns Baen International, a subsidiary consumer air travel company that operates in the northern hemisphere and select regions in the southern hemisphere, namely [[Sarpedon]].
In addition to production, Baen Avionics owns Baen International, a subsidiary consumer air travel company that operates in the northern hemisphere and select regions in the southern hemisphere, namely [[Sarpedon]].


==Products==
=Products=
===Number Series===
Baen Avionics traditionally categorizes designs with both an internal alphanumerical code and a public-use code, allowing for categorization of an aircraft by type and placement in series according to the order in which each design was produced. After the invention of jet-powered and helicopter aircraft, public use codes were expanded with an additional digit. All aircraft identifiers from Baen begin with BA, then a one to three letter code depending on the era of design, then a numerical code to denote the design's place in series with other aircraft proposed for production.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Code Letter
|A (aon)
|D (dha)
|C (ceat)
|L (lian)
|S (scaird)
|I (ionghaoth)
|B (sibhialtach)
|U (uathoibreách)
|-
!Meaning
|One-engine
|Twin-engine
|Four-engine
|Propeller
|Jet
|Rotor
|Civilian variant
|Unmanned
|-
!Date Added
|1927
|1927
|1931
|1940
|1940
|1955
|1955
|1988
|}


==== BA-100 Series ====
== Notable Prewar and Wartime Aircraft ==
The BA-100 Series consists of smaller, twin-engine fixed wing propeller aircraft, and is the oldest civilian production line produced by Baen Avionics.
===BA-A3 Oalkbaet===
[[File:Morane-Saulnier MS.227.jpg|left|thumb|200px|(Morane-Saulnier MS.227)]]
The Oalkbet, named for a township Baen visited in [[Hendalarsk]], was the first aircraft commissioned by the Fhainnin military from BA. While proving difficult to maintain, it was easily adaptable into a floatplane variant and was accepted by the Navy as a result. The frame featured an experimental engine which proved temperamental.
===BA-A7===
[[File:Mraz-Bibi-1254.jpg|left|thumb|200px]]
===BA-C5 'Dart'===
[[File:PZL.38 Wilk 2.jpg|left|thumb|200px|(PZL.38 Wilk)]]
===BA-C8 'Gallop'===
[[File:BeaufortIIa.jpg|left|thumb|200px|(Bristol Beaufort)]]
===BA-A11===
[[File:Payen b.jpg|left|thumb|200px|(Payen 22/101)]]
===BA-S1===
[[File:Payen PA-112.jpg|left|thumb|200px|(Payen 112)]]
===BA-4.129===
[[File:XB35-11 300.jpg|left|thumb|200px|(Northrop YB-35)]]


==== BA-200 Series ====
== Postwar Aircraft ==
The BA-200 series are Baen Avionics' line of small civilian craft, and mainly consist of single-engine propeller craft for sport and personal use. Many of the early 200-series are simply demilitarized variations of early Fhainnin fighter craft.
[[File:Hirsch 100 Musee du Bourget P1020204.JPG|left|thumb|200px|(Hirsch H.100)]]
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[[File:Mirage 2000C in-flight 2 (cropped).jpg|left|thumb|200px|(Mirage 2000)]]
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==Modern Aircraft==
<s>BA-300s were introduced with the advent of jet and later {{Wp|turbofan}} engines, and similarly feature fixed-wing aircraft. The BA-300s were envisioned as large passenger planes and continue to persist as Baen's main line of civilian transit craft, and additionally have found roles in military transport and cargo flight roles. Currently, the {{wp|Ilyushin Il-76|BA-331}} and {{wp|Tupolev Tu-154|BA-337}} are the most commonly used 300-series craft, with plans to expand the range with the expected BA-345 Globemaster.</s>


==== BA-300 Series ====
BA-300s were introduced with the advent of jet and later {{Wp|turbofan}} engines, and similarly feature fixed-wing aircraft. The BA-300s were envisioned as large passenger planes and continue to persist as Baen's main line of civilian transit craft, and additionally have found roles in military transport and cargo flight roles. Currently, the {{wp|Ilyushin Il-76|BA-331}} and {{wp|Tupolev Tu-154|BA-337}} are the most commonly used 300-series craft, with plans to expand the range with the expected BA-345 Globemaster.
==== BA-400 Series ====
The {{wp|Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21|BA-403}} was an experimental supersonic delta-wing civilian aircraft which failed to attract international attention due to its high requirements for maintenance and avante-garde design theory. Later models such as the {{wp|Tupolev Tu-144|BA-412}} serve a niche role for business transit, organ transport, and other high-cost, high-speed transport applications.
The {{wp|Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21|BA-403}} was an experimental supersonic delta-wing civilian aircraft which failed to attract international attention due to its high requirements for maintenance and avante-garde design theory. Later models such as the {{wp|Tupolev Tu-144|BA-412}} serve a niche role for business transit, organ transport, and other high-cost, high-speed transport applications.
====Military-Only Aircraft====
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