The Aviméta 88 was a French two-seat fighter from 1920s decade which was designed by the Captain Georges Lepére who designed the Packard-Le Pére LUSAC 11 (considered by many as the true first American fighter) as twenty one other two-seaters while on loan to the US Government.
It was a two-seat parasol monoplane fighter that was manufactured by the aviation department of the Schneider-Creusot company and appeared first in 1926.
It was built entirely in a metal alloy known as alférium. In fact it had corrugated alférium skin and it was powered by a 500hp Hispano-Suiza 12Hb 12-cylinder liquid-cooled engine. It was armed with two synchronised 7,7mm MAC (Vickers) machine guns plus other two Lewis Mk.II in a flexible mounting in the rear cockpit.
Just one prototype was built because the development was abandoned when the official requirement for a two-seater fighter and reconnaissance fighter was discarded.
Sources:
1. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of Fighters
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviméta_88
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