Lioré et Olivier LeO 7

The Lioré et Olivier LéO 7 was a French bomber escort biplane designed and built by Lioré et Olivier for the French Air Force.

Design and development
The LéO 7 was three-seat bomber escort biplane developed from the LéO 5 ground-attack biplane. Appearing in 1922 the production version (the LéO 7/2) had a wide-track landing gear and gunner's cockpits in the snub nose and amidships. The pilot was located in a cockpit just behind the wing trailing edge.

Operational history
Twenty LéO 7/2s were built followed by 18 LéO 7/3s which were a navalised version with increased wingspan.

Variants

 * LéO 7
 * Prototype


 * LéO 7/2
 * Production version for the Armée de l'Air (French Air Force), 20 built


 * LéO 7/3
 * Production version for the Aéronautique Navale (French Naval Aviation), 18 built.

Operators

 * French Air Force
 * French Navy
 * French Navy