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12-546: The aircraft was designed in the beginning of the 1920s by Henry Coroller in Potez works. It was a development of a fighter SEA IV built by Société d'Etudes Aéronautiques , a former firm of Henry Potez and Coroller. A prototype was flown in October 1921 and shown at Paris Air Show that year. It was conventional biplane with a fixed tailskid landing gear and a nose-mounted 276 kW (370 hp) Lorraine 12D engine. The engine

24-519: A floatplane variant Potez XV HO.2 was built. There was also an export variant Potez XVII of 1923, built for Bulgaria only, with the same LD 12Db engine. Already in 1923, Poland bought a licence for the Potez 15 and started to manufacture them in Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów (PWS, 35 built in 1925) and Plage i Laśkiewicz aircraft works (100 built in 1925-1926). A development of Potez XV

36-426: A ring mounting. Data from Polskie konstrukcje lotnicze 1893-1939 General characteristics Performance Armament Related development Related lists Potez Potez (pronounced [pɔtɛz] ) was a French aircraft manufacturer founded as Aéroplanes Henry Potez by Henry Potez at Aubervilliers in 1919 . The firm began by refurbishing war-surplus SEA IV aircraft, but

48-474: A revision of the design as the SEA VII. This differed from its predecessor in having an enclosed cabin for two passengers occupying the rear fuselage. The wings were enlarged to reduce their loading and therefore to allow for slower, gentler landings than the military aircraft had been capable of making. Cie Franco-Roumaine purchased twenty-five examples to use on services to Eastern European destinations during

60-577: The Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est (SNCASE) on 1 February 1937. Potez's factories in Sartrouville and Méaulte were taken over by SNCAN and the Berre factory went to SNCASE . After World War II , Potez was re-established as Société des Avions et Moteurs Henry Potez at Argenteuil but did not return to the prominence that the company enjoyed prior to nationalisation. In 1958 ,

72-580: The company bought Fouga to form Potez Air-Fouga , but when Potez's last design, the 840 (a small turboprop airliner) failed to attract customers, it was forced to close. The remaining assets were purchased by Sud-Aviation in 1967 . Potez SEA VII The Potez SEA VII , otherwise known simply as the Potez VII , was an early airliner developed in France shortly after the First World War. The SEA VII

84-579: The engine, fuselage , undercarriage and tailfin of the Potez XV, combining them with the wings and stabilizers from a newer design, the 25 . Wooden construction biplane with fixed landing gear. The fuselage was framed, with metal covering for front engine section, plywood covering for the midsection and canvas covering for the tail section. Rectangular two- spar wings, plywood ( leading edge ) and canvas covered, of equal span . Crew of two, sitting in tandem in open cockpits : pilot in front, observer in

96-418: The rear. Conventional fixed landing gear, with a common straight axle and a rear skid. Engine in front, two barrel-type water Lamblin radiators below the fuselage, between the landing gear. Two-blade wooden propeller . Fuel tanks in the fuselage. The pilot had one fixed 7.7 mm (.303 in) Vickers machine gun with an interrupter gear , the observer had twin 7.7 mm (.303 in) Lewis Guns on

108-728: Was Potez 27 , Primary user of Potez 15s was the French Air Force, from late 1923. Main user became the Polish Air Force with 110 aircraft bought and 135 manufactured in Poland. In the Polish Air Force, they were used from late 1924. Their withdrawal from combat units started in 1927, then they were used for training until mid-1930s. 120 aircraft were sold to Romania, 12 to Spain, and eight to Denmark. Six Potez XVIIs were sold to Bulgaria. 25 Potez XV A.2 were used in Yugoslavia. These shared

120-606: Was a civil version of the SEA IV military aircraft that Henry Potez had developed with Louis Coroller and Marcel Bloch as the Société d'Etudes Aéronautiques . With the end of hostilities, the French military cancelled its orders for the SEA IV and the company dissolved. Potez, however, believed that the design had potential in peacetime and founded Aéroplanes Henry Potez in 1919 to refurbish war-surplus machines for civil use. This soon led to

132-593: Was later replaced by a 224 kW (300 hp) Renault 12Fe . After a successful evaluation, the aircraft was ordered by the Aéronautique Militiare as a reconnaissance aircraft. The first aircraft were manufactured and delivered in late 1923. Series-built aircraft were powered with Lorraine-Dietrich 12Db V-12 engines. 410 were built in France. The aircraft was built in two main military variants: Potez XV A.2 reconnaissance aircraft and Potez XV B.2 bomber -reconnaissance aircraft. A single prototype of

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144-531: Was soon building new examples of an improved version, the Potez SEA VII . During the inter-war years, Potez built a range of small passenger aircraft and a series of military reconnaissance biplanes that were also licence-built in Poland. In 1933 , the firm bought flying boat manufacturer CAMS . The company was nationalized in 1936 , following which it was merged with Chantiers aéronavals Étienne Romano , Lioré et Olivier , CAMS and SPCA in order to form

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