SNCA du Midi

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Hello guys,
I search for aircraft or projects of the short living Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Midi.

The only project I know was the M.580, the later SNCASE S.E.580.

Do you know more about this firm and its aircraft?

Thanks, Maveric
 
How come,

we spoke before about M-520-T,M-540 & M-560;

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,29659.msg317327.html#msg317327

and there was a gliders; PM-100,PM-110,PM-111,PM-120 & PM-200.
 
https://www.aviationsmilitaires.net/v2/base/view/Model/2067.html

https://oldmachinepress.com/2016/03/10/sud-est-sncase-se-580-fighter/

Boy was that aircraft ugly. It was a competitor to the Arsenal VB-10 which was quite a disaster...
 
So we can hold on: The SNCA du Midi has continued the Dewoitine series. The M.580 was the D.580. Does anyone know from which number Midi took over and at which number the SNCASE continued?
 
Ah yes indeed, SNCA du midi was in Toulouse and Toulouse only, in fact Emile Dewoitine was a though boss with its workers, and the Front Populaire didn't liked him very much. So they set up a SNCA just to control his plant.
"Mimile bras de fer" "Mimile iron hand" was his nickname.

SNCA were six

- Nord (SNCA-N) Meaulte, the land of Henry Potez
- Centre (SNCA-C) in Bourges
- Ouest (SNCA-O) Saint Nazaire
- Sud-ouest (SNCA-SO) Bordeaux
- Midi (SNCA-M) Toulouse
- Sud-est (SNCA-SE) Cannes

Roughly, France aerospace industry was split into six zones, three - North, West, Center, and three South - South-west, south-center, and south-east.

Le midi de la France is the zone that extend between Montpellier and Toulouse.

SNCA du midi was created in 1936 but in 1941 it was folded into SNCASE (South-East, that is, Cannes) So there were probably few Dewoitine designs rebranded SNCAM.
 
Maveric said:
... The only project I know was the M.580, the later SNCASE S.E.580...

Although obviously a heavy fighter, it seems that SNCAM dubbed their M 580 design a 'postal' aircraft to get around inspectors from WAKO (the German Armistice Commission in France).

Ali nuove 1962, 'I Caccia Dewoitine: 5° Parte', Giorgio Bignozzi, page 128
 

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