It was a single-bay unstaggered biplane with equal-span wings with a fixed tail-skid undercarriage. An unusual feature for an Avia produced airplane was that it featured long-span ailerons balanced by a small auxiliary airfoil placed in the upper surface of the lower ailerons.
The design was typical of the World War I and the artermath years with the pilot and obersver sitting rear-to-rear in open cockpits, with the observer post, placed in the rear, being armed with two 0.303in Lewis machine guns placed in a Skoda-built ring. The airplane itself was powered by a 450hp Walter-built Bristol Jupiter IV radial engine and it had also another pair of 0.303in Vickers machine-guns placed in the front. Most probably it also had a small load capacity, but we haven't found any info about it. Just like other Avia designs, originally had not fixed fin, just a rudder, but it was changed when entered in service.
Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avia_BH-26
2. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of Fighters
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