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in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by the

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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

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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

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(Vietnam), and eventually Hong Kong. The firm was nationalised in March 1937 into the short-lived SNCA du Midi or

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, 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

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in the

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. The end of Dewoitine as a recognisable entity was its absorption into

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 ...

in December 1940, by which time Émile Dewoitine had departed to establish

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, and no further aircraft were produced under the Dewoitine name.

Aircraft

* Dewoitine D.1 * Dewoitine D.2 project * Dewoitine D.3 project * Dewoitine D.4 project * Dewoitine D.5 project * Dewoitine D.6 project *

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 t ...

* Dewoitine D.9 * Dewoitine D.10 project * Dewoitine D.13 project * Dewoitine D.14 *

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. De ...

* Dewoitine D.17 project * Dewoitine D.18 project * Dewoitine D.19 *

Dewoitine D.21 __NOTOC__ The Dewoitine D.21 was 1920s French open-cockpit, fixed- undercarriage monoplane fighter aircraft. Design and development The prototype D.21 was a development of the D.12. The aircraft was license-built in Switzerland (by EKW), Cz ...

* Dewoitine D.22 project *

Dewoitine D.23 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 ...

project * Dewoitine D.24 project * Dewoitine D.25 * Dewoitine D.26 * Dewoitine D.27 *

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 References D.28 1930s French airliners High-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1931 Single-engi ...

Dewoitine D.30 The Dewoitine D.30 was a ten-seat cantilever monoplane built in France in 1930. The D.30 was a single-engine aircraft but the second was completed as a trimotor and redesignated D.31. Design and development The Dewoitine D.30 first appeared in p ...

* Dewoitine D.33 * Dewoitine D.35 * Dewoitine D.332 *

Dewoitine D.338 The Dewoitine D.338 was a 1930s French 22-passenger airliner built by Dewoitine. Design and development The D.338 was a development of the D.333 with retractable undercarriage. First flown in 1936 it had a slightly increased wingspan, and t ...

* Dewoitine D.371 * Dewoitine D.372 * Dewoitine D.420 project * Dewoitine D.430 * Dewoitine D.440 project * Dewoitine D.450 project * Dewoitine D.470 project *

Dewoitine D.480 The Dewoitine D.480 was a French single engine side-by-side sports and training aircraft built in the early 1930s. Two were completed and flew with several different radial engines. One remained active through the 1950s. Design The D.480 was ...

* Dewoitine D.481 * Dewoitine D.490 project * Dewoitine D.500 * Dewoitine D.513 * Dewoitine D.520 * Dewoitine D.551 * Dewoitine D.560 * Dewoitine D.580 project *

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 t ...

project *

Dewoitine D.600 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 ...

project * Dewoitine D.640 project * Dewoitine D.650 project * Dewoitine D.660 project * Dewoitine D.680 project * Dewoitine D.710 project *

Dewoitine D.750 The Dewoitine D.750 was a prototype France, 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 d ...

* Dewoitine D.760 project *

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. ...

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 t ...

project * Dewoitine D.810 project * Dewoitine D.820 project * Dewoitine D.860 project *

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 t ...

project * Dewoitine HD.460 project * Dewoitine HD.730 *

Dewoitine P-1 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 ...

References

* {{Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France Manufacturing companies established in 1920 Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1929 1920 establishments in France 1929 disestablishments in France