Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by
Émile Dewoitine
Émile Dewoitine (26 September 1892 – 5 July 1979) was a French aviation industrialist.
Prewar industrial activities
Born in Crépy-en-Laonnais, Émile Dewoitine entered the aviation industry by working at Latécoère during World War I. ...
at
Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by the
French Air Force
The French Air and Space Force (AAE) (french: Armée de l'air et de l'espace, ) is the air and space force of the French Armed Forces. It was the first military aviation force in history, formed in 1909 as the , a service arm of the French Army; ...
but purchased in large quantities abroad and licence-built in Italy, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia. The company was liquidated in January 1927, with the only remaining active programme (the
D.27) being transferred to
EKW in Switzerland.
The company was re-established in Paris in March the following year as Société Aéronautique Française (Avions Dewoitine) or SAF. After briefly continuing D.27 production, the reconstituted firm produced a range of fighters that became a mainstay of the French airforce during the 1930s, the
D.500 family.
It also developed important civilian airliners, such as the
D.333 and its derivative the
D.338, designed for pioneering routes to
French Indochina (Vietnam), and eventually Hong Kong.
The firm was nationalised in March 1937 into the short-lived SNCA du Midi or
SNCAM, and produced the
D.520 as France's best-performing fighter at the outbreak of war, albeit in too small numbers to pose any serious opposition to the
Luftwaffe in the
Battle of France
The Battle of France (french: bataille de France) (10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign ('), the French Campaign (german: Frankreichfeldzug, ) and the Fall of France, was the Nazi Germany, German invasion of French Third Rep ...
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The end of Dewoitine as a recognisable entity was its absorption into
SNCASE in December 1940, by which time Émile Dewoitine had departed to establish
SIPA, and no further aircraft were produced under the Dewoitine name.
Aircraft
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Dewoitine D.1
The Dewoitine D.1 was a French single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1920s, built by the French industrial company Dewoitine.
Development
The D.1 was the first airplane designed by Emile Dewoitine after he established his own company. The D.1 was ...
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Dewoitine D.2 project
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Dewoitine D.3 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.4 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by t ...
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Dewoitine D.5 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.6 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.7
The Dewoitine D.7 was a French sport plane built in the mid 1920s.
Development
The D.7 was a conventionally laid-out monoplane, with a thick cantilever shoulder wing. Its single seat, open cockpit, provided with a small windscreen, was over th ...
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Dewoitine D.9
The Dewoitine D.9 was a French monoplane fighter built by Dewoitine and built under licence in Italy as the Ansaldo AC.3.
Design and development
The D.9 was a single-seat high-wing monoplane with a conventional landing gear and powered by a Gn ...
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Dewoitine D.10 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by t ...
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Dewoitine D.13 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.14
The Dewoitine 14 was a mid-1920s French civil transport, capable of carrying mixture of passengers and freight. The sole example was used in commercial trials.
Design and development
Dewoitine aircraft, gliders and ultralights apart, had genera ...
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Dewoitine D.15
The Dewoitine D.15 was a single-engine, single-seat biplane fighter aircraft built in France in the 1920s. Intended to offer structural simplifications when compared with monoplanes, it had a disappointing performance and was soon abandoned.
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Dewoitine D.17 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.18 project
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Dewoitine D.19 __NOTOC__
The Dewoitine D.19 was a fighter aircraft built in France in 1925 in response to a French Air Force solicitation.
Design and development
A development of the D.1, the D.19 shared the D.1's parasol-wing configuration, but featured an ...
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Dewoitine D.21
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Dewoitine D.22 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.23 project
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Dewoitine D.24 project
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Dewoitine D.25
The Dewoitine D.25 was a single-engine, two-seat, parasol-wing fighter aircraft built in France in the 1920s. The 1925 French two-seat fighter programme was cancelled before any orders were placed, but four examples were exported to Argentina.
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Dewoitine D.26
The Dewoitine D.26 was a military trainer developed in Switzerland for the Swiss Air Force in parallel with the D.27 fighter.
Design and development
The D.26 airframe was similar to that of the D.27. Differences included:
*The engine cowli ...
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Dewoitine D.27
The Dewoitine D.27 was a parasol monoplane fighter aircraft designed by Émile Dewoitine in 1928.
Design and development
After the end of World War I, the slump in demand for aircraft forced Dewoitine to close his company and move to Switzerland ...
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Dewoitine D.28
The Dewoitine D.28 was a French high-wing monoplane airliner built in the early 1930s, with a single nose-mounted engine.
Specifications
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D.28
1930s French airliners
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1931
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Dewoitine D.30
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Dewoitine D.33
The Dewoitine D.33 was a single-engine low-wing all-metal monoplane aircraft designed and produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Dewoitine.Durand, William Frederick - ''Aerodynamic Theory. A General Review of Progress. Under a Grant of the G ...
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Dewoitine D.35
The Dewoitine D.35 was a small, single-engine passenger transport aircraft built and flown by Dewoitine in France for their own use in the early 1930s. Only one was produced.
Design and development
The D.35 was built solely as a company taxi t ...
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Dewoitine D.332
The Dewoitine D.332 was a 1930s French eight-passenger airliner built by Dewoitine.
Design and development
The D.332 was an all-metal cantilever low-wing monoplane. The pilot and co-pilot were seated side by side in a cabin located forward of ...
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Dewoitine D.338
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Dewoitine D.371
The Dewoitine 37 was the first of a family of 1930s French-built monoplane fighter aircraft. Design and development
The D.37 was a single-seat aircraft of conventional configuration. Its fixed landing gear used a tailskid. The open cockpit was lo ...
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Dewoitine D.372
The Dewoitine 37 was the first of a family of 1930s French-built monoplane fighter aircraft. Design and development
The D.37 was a single-seat aircraft of conventional configuration. Its fixed landing gear used a tailskid. The open cockpit was lo ...
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Dewoitine D.420 project
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Dewoitine D.430
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Dewoitine D.440 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.450 project
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Dewoitine D.470 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.480
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Dewoitine D.481
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Dewoitine D.490 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.500
The Dewoitine D.500 was an all-metal, open- cockpit, fixed- undercarriage monoplane fighter aircraft designed and produced by French aircraft manufacturer Dewoitine.
Developed from a specification issued by the French Air Ministry during 1930 ...
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Dewoitine D.513
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Dewoitine D.520
The Dewoitine D.520 was a French fighter aircraft that entered service in early 1940, shortly after the beginning of the Second World War.
The D.520 was designed in response to a 1936 requirement from the French Air Force for a fast, modern fi ...
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Dewoitine D.551
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Dewoitine D.560 __NOTOC__
The Dewoitine D.560 was a prototype French single-seat fighter developed by Dewoitine as an alternate to the Dewoitine D.500. The design failed to better the performance and only one aircraft was built.
Development
To provide an alterna ...
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Dewoitine D.580 project
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Dewoitine D.590 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.600 project
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Dewoitine D.640 project
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Dewoitine D.650 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.660 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.680 project
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Dewoitine D.710 project
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Dewoitine D.750
The Dewoitine D.750 was a prototype French twin-engined torpedo bomber. It was designed prior to the outbreak of the Second World War to operate from the aircraft carriers of the French Navy, but only a single example was completed, with developm ...
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Dewoitine D.760 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.770
The Dewoitine D.770 was a prototype French twin-engined attack aircraft of the late 1930s. It was intended as a replacement for the Breguet 693 but testing was incomplete by the time that France surrendered to Germany, and no production followed. ...
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Dewoitine D.800 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.810 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.820 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine D.860 project
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Dewoitine D.900 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine HD.460 Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...
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Dewoitine HD.730
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Dewoitine P-1
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