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Sea Planes
Type: Breguet Bre.731 multi-crew transport flying boat.
Max Speed: 233 mph at 8,530 ft.
Climb Rate: ??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling: ??? ft.
Range: 1,553 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: S.H.A.A.
A Bre.731 emerges from the water on its beaching apparatus.

 
Type: Nord N.1402 Noroit seven seat reconnaissance and air/sea rescue amphibian flying boat.
Max: Speed: 230 mph at 8,695 ft.
Climb Rate: 984 ft per min.
Service Ceiling: ??? ft.
Range: 2,610 miles.
Armament: six 20-mm cannon in two gun nose, dorsal, and tail position, and bombs carried in nacelle bays plus provision for eight rockets on the hull sides.
Photo: S.H.A.A.
An elegant amphibian with powerful defensive armament, the N.1402 Noroit served with Escadrille 5F.

 
Type: Scan 20 four seat training and utility flying boat.
Max Speed: 137 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 18,045 ft.
Range: 373 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
A scan 20 reveals the key features of this attractive design, including underwing stabilizing floats and, toward the rear of the two-step hull bottom, the water rudder.

 

Type: C.A.M.S. 55.10Hy.5 five seat maritime reconnaissance flying boat.
Max Speed: 121 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: 3,280 ft in 7 minutes 30 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 11,155 ft.
Range: 1,165 miles.
Armament: four trainable 0.303 in 7.7 mm machine guns in bow and mid-ship positions, and two 165 lb bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
The C.A.M.S. 55 was sturdily built, mainly of wood with fabric and plywood covering, the latter reinforced with galvanized steel on the forward part of the hull.

 

Type: Latecoere 298D three seat torpedo bomber and reconnaissance floatplane.
Max Speed: 178 mph at 6,560 ft.
Climb Rate: 4,920 ft in 5 minutes 39 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 21,325 ft.
Range: 1,367 miles.
Armament: three 7.5 mm o.295 in machine guns (two fixed and one trainable) and one 1,477 lb torpedo or 1,102 lb of bombs or depth charges.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
In the crucial days after Germany's invasion of France in May 1940, the Latecoere 290s were even pressed into service as dive bombers against German armor, and suffered heavy losses.

 

Type: Breguet 521 Bizerte eight seat long range reconnaissance flying boat.
Max Speed: 151 mph at 3,280 ft.
Climb Rate: 6,560 ft in 8.76 minutes.
Service Ceiling: 19,685 ft.
Range: 1,864 miles.
Armament: five 7.5 mm 0.295 in machine guns and up to 661 lb of bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
The Breguet Bizerte from squadron E3 was one of the first delivered to the French navy in 1933.

 

Type: Breguet Bre.730.1 multi-seat maritime reconnaissance
and transport flying boat.
Max Speed: 205 mph at 4,920 ft.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling:
Range: 4,287 miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
In this rare photograph of the Br.730 prototype, taken between April and July 1938, there is a Bre 521 Bizerte in the background.

 

Type: Farman F.168 Torp.4 four seat torpedo bomber and reconnaissance floatplane.
Max Speed: 109 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 14,765 ft.
Range: 746 miles.
Armament: two 0.303 in 7.7 mm machine guns, and up to 4,409 lb of bombs or one 1,764 lb torpedo.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
An F.168 of Escadrille 3B1, one of five squadrons of the Aeronautique Navale to fly this type.

 

Type: Liore-et-Olivier H-43Hy.3 three seat ship-borne scout
and reconnaissance floatplane.
Max Speed: 130 mph at 3,280 ft.
Climb Rate: 6,560 ft in 9 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 19,685 ft.
Range: 512 miles.
Armament: one fixed and trainable 0.295 in 7.5 mm machine
guns, and up to 330 lb of bombs.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
The two H-43 escadrilles were based on the French southren coast at Saint Mandrier at the time of German invasion in May 1940, and fortunately for their crews took little active part in the ensuing air campain.

 

Type: Besson MB.35 two seat spotter and reconnaissance floatplane.
Max Speed: 99 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 15,750 ft.
Range: 186 miles.
Armament: (planned) one o.303 in 7.7 mm machine gun on a ring mounting for the observer.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
Design requirements to make the plane, when taken to pieces, fit into a cylindrical hangar gave the assembled MB.335
distinctive appearance.

 

Type: Nieuport VIM two seat observation floatplane.
Max Speed: 68 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling:
Range:
Armament: none.
Photo: S. H. A. A.
ANieuport VIM floatplane is hoisted back on board its seaplane carrier by a crane.

 

 

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