Intended to fulfil the demands of an October 1934 specification calling for a three-seat fighter to serve as an aerial command post for single-seat fighters - a role to which were subsequently added those of bomber interception and escort - the R-110 was flown for the first time on 30 March 1938. Of mixed construction, with plywood-covered wooden wings and a welded steeltube fuselage, the R-110 was powered by two 450hp Renault 12 Ro 2/3 12-cylinder air-cooled engines and carried an armament of two fixed 20mm cannon and a single 7.5mm machine gun on a flexible mount in the aft cockpit. The R-110 was unusual in that the pilot and aircraft commander were seated behind separate vertically- staggered stepped windscreens. The competing Potez 630 had appeared in production form before the R-110 prototype entered flight test and further development of the latter was discontinued.

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