The Potez SEA VII, otherwise known simply as the Potez VII, was an early airliner developed in France shortly after the First World War.
[Taylor 1989, p.750]
Design and development
The SEA VII was a civil version of the
SEA IV
The SEA IV was a French two-seat military aircraft of World War I and the immediate post-war era.
Development
The SEA IV was designed and built in 1917 by Henry Potez, Louis Coroller, and Marcel Bloch. It was a derivative of their previous SE ...
military aircraft that
Henry Potez
Henry Potez ( Méaulte, 30 September 1891 – Paris, 9 November 1981) was a French aircraft industrialist.
He studied in the French Aeronautics School '' Supaéro''. With Marcel Dassault, he was the inventor of the Potez-Bloch propeller which, a ...
had developed with
Louis Coroller and
Marcel Bloch as the
Société d'Etudes Aéronautiques.
["The Paris Aero Show 1919", p.69] With the end of hostilities, the French military cancelled its orders for the SEA IV and the company dissolved. Potez, however, believed that the design had potential in peacetime and founded Aéroplanes Henry Potez in 1919 to refurbish war-surplus machines for civil use.
[Gunston 1993, p.243] This soon led to a revision of the design as the SEA VII.
This differed from its predecessor in having an enclosed cabin for two passengers occupying the rear fuselage.
The wings were enlarged to reduce their loading and therefore to allow for slower, gentler landings than the military aircraft had been capable of making.
purchased twenty-five examples to use on services to Eastern European destinations during the 1920s.
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Imperial Iranian Air Force
The history of the Iranian Air Force, currently known as the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, can be divided into two phases—before the Islamic Revolution, and after it.
Imperial era
The Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) was a branch ...
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