Constructions Aéronautiques Maurice Brochet
IndustryAeronautics
Founded1947
FounderMaurice Brochet
Defunct1962
FateDefunct
Headquarters
Neauphle-le-Château
,
France
ProductsAircraft

Constructions Aéronautiques Maurice Brochet was a French manufacturer of light aircraft established by Maurice Brochet (18 June 1899 – 16 June 1969) in Neauphle-le-Château in 1947.

Brochet MB.76 at Chavenay airfield near Paris in 1967

Aircraft design and construction

Initially, the firm sold plans for light aircraft of Brochet's own designs to amateur constructors, but gradually undertook more and more aircraft construction, with its final designs not marketed for homebuilding at all. During the early 1950s, Brochet sold some 58 light planes of eight designs to the French government for distribution to the country's aeroclubs.[1]

Aircraft produced

Maurice Brochet built the MB.10 and the MB.20 gliders in the 1930s. The latter became the Avia 50 motorized glider.[2] He also built three units of the MB.30 monoplane with parasol wing in 1934 before opening the Brochet factory.[3]

The aircraft produced in series by the factory after WW II were the following:[4]

References

Notes
  1. ^ Simpson, 2005, p. 71
  2. ^ Avions Maurice Brochet - I
  3. ^ Avions Maurice Brochet - II
  4. ^ Simpson, 2005, p. 71
Bibliography
  • Gunston, Bill (1993). World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. p. 61.
  • Simpson, Rod (2005). The General Aviation Handbook. Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-222-5.

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Aircraft designed by Maurice Brochet
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France
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