The Aero Ae.04 was a Czechoslovak fighter of 1921. It was a development of the previous Ae.02 and it didn't attract any purchase order and it only could fly in prototype form.
After testing the Ae.02, Vlasák and Husník revised the basic design of the airplane in order to acommodate it to the requirements of the Czechoslovak army in order to fit it with the 185hp BMW IIIa six-cylinder engine because a license to produce that engine had been adquired.
It flew for the first time in 1921 and the prototype stablished a new national altitude record when it reached 6361m high. After such achievement, it was displayed at the 2nd international aircraft exhibition in Prague.
Even if it held most of the fuselage features of the Ae.02, the external fuel tank of that one was transfered back into the fuselage, in order to make it safer and initialy it flew with an automobile style radiator, however, after some development, it was changed into a chin-type radiator.
Only one prototype was made and the development continued towards the A.18.
Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Ae_04
2. The complete book of fighters
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