Operational History
Airplane Ikarus IO is used in the navy of the Kingdom of SHS / Yugoslavia as coastal reconnaissance and light bomber. His service began in 1927 and lasted until just before the war in 1941. The planes were deployed and served in bases: Divulje, Vodice and Kumbor. In the beginning of using this aircraft occurred relatively large number of accidents that is already in 1932, the number of these aircraft was dropped from the initial 37 to 29 used copies. Because of intensive use in 1933 have expired resources of most motor Liberty in 1934 and was made a substitute Liberty motors, Lorraine-Dietrich, allowing the continued use of these aircraft. In January 1941, the composition Naval Aviation was 4 aircraft of this type, of which two were correct. During military operations in April 1941 these planes were not used, their function took more modern planes Rogožarski SIM-XIV-H and Rogožarski SIM XIV B-H.
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