The Potez 36 was a French two-seat touring or sport monoplane designed and built by

Potez Potez (pronounced ) was a French aircraft manufacturer founded as Aéroplanes Henry Potez by Henry Potez at Aubervilliers in 1919 in aviation, 1919. The firm began by refurbishing war-surplus SEA IV aircraft, but was soon building new examples of ...

. The Potez 36 was a high-wing braced monoplane with a conventional landing gear. It had an enclosed cabin with side-by-side seating for a pilot and passenger. The design had some unusual features like folding wings to make it easier to store or to tow behind a motor car. Some of the aircraft had Potez-designed leading-edge slats. The aircraft was popular with both French private owners and flying clubs with a small number being used by the French Air Force during the 1930s as liaison aircraft.

Variants

;Potez 36 :Prototype of the series powered by a Salmson 5Ac radial engine. ;Potez36/1 :production version powered by a Renault 4Pa; two built. ;Potez 36/3 :Prototype followed by six production aircraft with no slats, powered by a Salmson 5Ac radial engine. ;Potez 36/5 :Variant with no slats but powered by a

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engine; five built. ;Potez 36/13 :Production version of the 36/5 but fitted with leading-edge slats, 96 built. ;Potez 36/14 :Variant with a Renault 4Pb engine and leading-edge slate and wheel brakes, 103 built. ;Potez 36/15 :Variant with a Potez 6Ab engine, 18 built. ;Potez 36/17 :Variant with a

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engine, two built. ;Potez 36/19 :Variant with a

Renault 4Pci 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 ...

engine, two built. ;Potez 36/21 :Production variant with a Potez 6Ac engine and wheels with balloon tyres, 29 built.

Specifications (Potez 36/3)

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References

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