Morane-Saulnier Alcyon: French two-seat basic training monoplane

Morane-Saulnier MS.733 Alcyon (F-BMQG): French two-seat basic training monoplane

The production version that followed was designated the MS.733, with five pre-production aircraft and 200 production aircraft. The aircraft were delivered to the French Navy (40), the French Air Force (145) and the Cambodian Air Force (15). Seventy of the French Air Force aircraft were fitted with machine guns for gunnery training and some of these were later converted for counter-insurgency operations (and re-designated MS.733A) for use in Algeria. After the war, some aircraft were sold to Morocco.

Old wings (Toulouse)

Aéroplanes Morane-Saulnier was a French aircraft manufacturing company formed in October 1911 by Raymond Saulnier (1881–1964) and the Morane brothers, Léon (1885–1918) and Robert (1886–1968). The company was taken over and diversified in the 1960s.

Morane-Saulnier was purchased by Potez on January 7, 1962, and became SEEMS, the Societe d’Exploitation des Etablissements Morane-Saulnier. In 1966 its civilian models were spun off to form SOCATA, the Societe de Construction d’Avions de Tourisme et d’Affaires, which was eventually purchased by Aérospatiale.

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