Rogožarski SIM-XIV-H

The Rogožarski SIM-XIV-H (Serbian: Рогожарски СИМ-XIV-Х) was a 1930s Yugoslav coastal reconnaissance floatplane and light bomber, twin-engine, with three crew members.

[2] In January 1937, the Yugoslav Navy Air Service issued a specification for a twin-engine coastal reconnaissance aircraft,[3] to replace the Ikarus IO flying boat.

To meet this requirement, Rogozarski proposed the SIM-XIV-H, a twin-engine floatplane designed by Sima Milutinović, and this type was selected by the Yugoslav navy, with the first prototype making its maiden flight on 8 February 1938.

[3] The SIM-XIV-H was a low winged monoplane of mixed wood and metal construction, with an oval section monocoque fuselage.

The pilot and radio operator/gunner sat in tandem under a long canopy, with the observer also armed with a single machine gun.

Typically, the aircraft was armed with two machine guns on board: one placed in the nose to by operated by the observer and the other in the rear gunner's cockpit.

[8] A third batch of 12 aircraft was ordered in 1940, with 450 hp (336 kW) Argus As 410, but construction was interrupted by the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941.

Argus As10 engine installed in Seaplanes Rogozarski SIM-XIV-H