The SNCAC Chardonneret (sometimes known as the Aérocentre Chardonneret) were a short series of 1940s
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three- and four-seat cabin monoplanes with the same wings and general layout but with different engines.
Design and development
The name Chardonneret () was applied to the three completed examples of the first post-war designs from the
Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Centre (SNCAC) company at Bourges. The NC.832, NC.840 and NC.841 trio differed chiefly in their engines and the number of people they could hold. The Chardonnerets were all high-wing, braced cabin monoplanes. The NC.832 was powered by a four cylinder inline inverted air-cooled
Régnier 4E.O engine and carried three. It had a tail wheel
undercarriage
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and first flew on 3 November 1946. The other two were both four-seaters. The NC.840 had a
Renault 4Pei
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Design and development
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engine of similar configuration to the
Régnier and a tricycle wheel undercarriage. The NC.841 had a
Mathis 175H radial engine and a tail wheel undercarriage.
Although the aircraft did not sell, the experience was used in the tail wheel landing gear
NC.850.
Variants
''Date from:''Gaillard (1990), p. 49
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;NC.832:
Régnier 4E.O powered, three seat, tail wheel undercarriage, one built.
;NC.840:
]Renault 4Pei
The Renault 4P, also called the Renault Bengali Junior, was a series of air-cooled 4-cylinder inverted inline aero engines designed and built in France from 1927, which produced from to .
Design and development
Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic Ocea ...
powered, four seat, tricycle undercarriage, one built.
;NC.841:
Mathis 175H powered, four seat, tail wheel undercarriage, one built.
Specifications (NC.840)
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1940s French civil utility aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1946