Potez (pronounced ) was a French

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founded as Aéroplanes Henry Potez by

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, aft ...

Aubervilliers Aubervilliers () is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France region, northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Albertivillariens'' or ''Albertivillariennes''. Geography Localisatio ...

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. The firm began by refurbishing war-surplus

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 S ...

aircraft, but was soon building new examples of an improved version, the

Potez SEA VII 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 military aircraft ...

History

During the inter-war years, Potez built a range of small passenger aircraft and a series of military reconnaissance biplanes that were also licence-built in Poland. In

1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...

, the firm bought flying boat manufacturer CAMS. The company was

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1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

,Il y a 75 ans, les nationalisations de l’aéronautique française
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Lioré et Olivier Lioré-et-Olivier was a French manufacturer of aircraft of the 20th century, founded in 1912 by Fernand Lioré and Henri Olivier. History The ''Société de Constructions Aéronautiques d'hydravions Lioré-et-Olivier'' had three factories, loca ...

, CAMS and

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in order to form the Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est (SNCASE) on 1 February 1937. Potez's factories in Sartrouville and Méaulte were taken over by

SNCAN SNCAN, (abbreviated from ''Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Nord''), or commonly, Nord, was a state-owned French aircraft manufacturer in the pre- and post- World War II era. The company had been formed as one of six state ...

and the Berre factory went to

SNCASE SNCASE (abbreviated from ''Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est'') or Sud-Est was a French aircraft manufacturer. The company was formed on February 1, 1937, by the nationalization and merger of Lioré et Olivier, Pote ...

. After

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, Potez was re-established as Société des Avions et Moteurs Henry Potez at

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but did not return to the prominence that the company enjoyed prior to nationalisation. In

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

, the company bought Fouga to form Potez Air-Fouga, but when Potez's last design, the

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(a small turboprop airliner) failed to attract customers, it was forced to close. The remaining assets were purchased by Sud-Aviation in

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Aircraft

Potez VII 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 military aircraft ...

Potez VIII The Potez VIII was a French training aircraft which first flew in 1920. Originally it had a very unusual vertical inline engine and a four-wheeled undercarriage, though the production version was more conventional. Design and development The ...

Potez IX The Potez IX was an early airliner produced in France in the 1920s, a further development of the SEA IV that Henry Potez had co-designed during the First World War.Taylor 1989, p.747''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', p.2760 Design a ...

Potez X The Potez X was a French 1920s general-purpose colonial transport aircraft designed and built by Potez. Development The Potez X was a three-engined biplane with a fixed nosewheel landing gear supplemented with a tailskid. The first variant was ...

Potez XI The Potez XI was the first fighter aircraft designed by the French company Potez Potez (pronounced ) was a French aircraft manufacturer founded as Aéroplanes Henry Potez by Henry Potez at Aubervilliers in 1919 in aviation, 1919. The firm bega ...

Potez XV The Potez XV (also erroneously written Potez 15) was a French single-engine, two-seat observation biplane designed as a private venture by Louis Coroller and built by Potez and under licence in Poland. Design and development The aircraft was de ...

Potez XVII The Potez XV (also erroneously written Potez 15) was a French single-engine, two-seat observation biplane designed as a private venture by Louis Coroller and built by Potez and under licence in Poland. Design and development The aircraft was d ...

Potez 23 The Potez 23 was a prototype French single-engine fighter biplane designed in 1923. History The Potez 23 was built by Potez in response to the C1 fighter program issued by the STAé in 1923. The C1 fighter specification called for a speed o ...

Potez 25 Potez 25 (also written as Potez XXV) was a French twin-seat, single-engine biplane designed during the 1920s. A multi-purpose fighter-bomber, it was designed as a line aircraft and used in a variety of roles, including fighter and escort mission ...

* Potez 27 * Potez 28 *

Potez 29 The Potez 29 was a 1920s French passenger biplane designed and built by Avions Henry Potez. Although designed as a civilian aircraft, a large number entered service with the French Air Force. Development The Potez 29 was a biplane powered by a n ...

Potez 31 The Potez 31 was a prototype French two-seat night fighter, flown in about 1928, intended to fill the Cn.2 specification for the Armee de l'Air. Only one was built. Design and development The Potez 31 was a parasol-wing monoplane derived from th ...

Potez 32 The Potez 32 and its military version the Potez 33 was a single-engine French monoplane transport built by Potez and based on the Potez 29 biplane. Development The Potez 32 used the same fuselage, tail unit and landing gear of the Potez 29, but ...

Potez 33 The Potez 32 and its military version the Potez 33 was a single-engine French monoplane transport built by Potez and based on the Potez 29 biplane. Development The Potez 32 used the same fuselage, tail unit and landing gear of the Potez 29, but ...

Potez 36 The Potez 36 was a French two-seat touring or sport monoplane designed and built by Potez. The Potez 36 was a high-wing braced monoplane with a conventional landing gear. It had an enclosed cabin with side-by-side seating for a pilot and passenger ...

* Potez 37 * Potez 38 * Potez 39 *

Potez 42 The Potez 42 was designed and built in 1930 to meet a French government requirement for a small air ambulance capable of operating in the colonies. It did not reach production. Design Around 1930 there was a French interest in small aircraft c ...

* Potez 43 *

Potez 50 The Potez 50 or Potez 50 A2 was a French two seat military multi-rôle aircraft, first flown in 1931. It did not go into service but seven variants using five different engines were produced, one of them setting several speed with useful load re ...

* Potez 53 *

Potez 54 The Potez 540 was a French multi-role aircraft of the 1930s. Designed and built by Potez, it served with the French Air Force as a reconnaissance bomber, also serving with the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War. Although ...

* Potez 56 *

Potez 58 The Potez 58 was a family of French light utility and touring aircraft, developed in mid-1930s. They were three-seat single-engine high-wing monoplanes. Design and development The plane was a further development of Potez 43 family, tracing its r ...

* Potez 60 * Potez 62 *

Potez 63 The Potez 630 and its derivatives were a family of twin-engined, multirole aircraft developed for the French Air Force in the late 1930s. The design was a contemporary of the British Bristol Blenheim (which was larger and designed purely as a ...

* Potez 65 * Potez 75 * Potez 91 * Potez 220 * Potez 230 *

Potez 452 The Potez 452 was a French flying boat designed and built by Potez in response to a French Navy specification for a shipboard reconnaissance machine for use on its battleships and cruisers. Design The design requirements included the ability fo ...

* Potez 540 *

Potez 630 The Potez 630 and its derivatives were a family of twin-engined, multirole aircraft developed for the French Air Force in the late 1930s. The design was a contemporary of the British Bristol Blenheim (which was larger and designed purely as a ...

Potez 650 The Potez 650 was a French-built military transport aircraft that saw service in World War II. Derived from the Potez 62 airliner, the 650 was specifically built for paratrooper units. Development The Potez 62 was a high-wing twin-engine monopla ...

Potez 661 The Potez 661 was a four-engined metal low-wing monoplane airliner developed in France just before World War II. The single example flew with Air Afrique on French colonial routes. Design and development In 1936 the well-established Potez co ...

* Potez 662 *

Potez 840 The Potez 840 was a 1960s French four-engined 18-passenger executive monoplane, the last aircraft to use the Potez name. Development The Potez 840 was an all-metal cantilever-wing monoplane with a retractable tricycle landing gear. It had a cre ...

* Potez-CAMS 140 project only *

Potez-CAMS 141 The Potez-CAMS 141 was a French long range reconnaissance flying boat of the late 1930s. Intended to equip the French Navy, only a single prototype was completed before the German invasion of France stopped production. That prototype did, however ...

* Potez-CAMS 142 project only * Potez-CAMS 160 *

Potez-CAMS 161 The Potez-CAMS 161 was a large, France, French six-engined flying boat airliner, designed to operate on the North Atlantic routes that were opening up in the late 1930s. Its development was almost halted by World War II. Just one was built and ...

Engines

* Potez A-4 (1920s) *

Potez 4D The Potez 4D was a four-cylinder, inverted inline aircraft engine. It was first built shortly before World War II, but did not enter full production until 1949. Like the other D-series engines, the cylinders had a bore of 125 mm (4.9 in ...

* Potez 4E * Potez 6D *

Potez 8D The Potez 8D is the largest member of the Potez D series of air-cooled piston aircraft engines which share several common features. It is a supercharged eight cylinder inverted engine with a take-off power of . Design and development In the 193 ...

* Potez 12D * Potez 9A * Potez 9B (9 cylinder radial)

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