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Designation Manufacturer Type Intro * Built *
Am.143 SECAM-Amiot heavy bomber / recon 1935 148
Am.354 SECAM-Amiot bomber 1940 86
Br.270 Breguet recon 1929 140
Br.521 ("Bizerte") Breguet flying boat 1933 30
Br. "Calcutta" Breguet (Short S.8 Calcutta license) flying boat 1930 4
Br.530 ("Saïgon") Breguet flying boat 1933 3
Br.693 Breguet light attack bomber 1940 234
Br.730 Breguet flying boat (prototype) 1938 1
C.714 ("Cyclone") Caudron fighter 1938 56
CAMS 55 (/1, /2, /3, /6, /10, /11) C.A.M.S. flying boat biplane 1930 107
CAMS 37/11 C.A.M.S. flying boat biplane - trainer 1932 ?
D.37 (370, 371, 372) Dewoitine army fighter 1934 28
D.37 (373, 376) Dewoitine navy fighter (376: folding wings) 1934 24
D.510 Dewoitine fighter 1935 120
D.520 Dewoitine fighter 1938 907
DB-7 Douglas Aircraft (USA) bomber 1940 ~70
F.221 Farman (S.A.U.F.) bomber 1933 11
F.222.2 Farman (S.A.U.F.) bomber 1937 24
F.223.3 Farman (S.A.U.F.) bomber 1940 13
F.224 Farman (S.A.U.F.) bomber 1937 6
GL 811 Gourdou-Lesseurre shipboard floatplane 1932 20
GL 812 Gourdou-Lesseurre shipboard floatplane 1933 29
GL 832 Gourdou-Lesseurre shipboard floatplane 1934 22
GM 167F Glenn Martin (USA) bomber 1939 140
Hawk 75A Curtiss-Wright (USA) fighter 1939 291
L.70 Loire flying boat/recon 1933 8
L.130 Loire flying boat/recon 1934 125
L.210 Loire shipboard fighter seaplane 1937 21
Late 290 Latécoère seaplane torpedo bomber / recon 1931 32
Late 298 (A, B, D, E) Latécoère seaplane torpedo bomber / recon   1938 148
Late 301 Latécoère flying boat 1935 3
Late 302 Latécoère flying boat 1936 3
Late 523 Latécoère flying boat 1938 3
Late 611 ("Achernar") Latécoère flying boat (prototype) 1939 1
LeO C-30 Lioré et Olivier autogyro liaison aircraft 1935 59
LeO H275bis Lioré et Olivier seaplane torpedo bomber 1936 61
LeO-451 Lioré et Olivier bomber 1939 602
LeO H-47 (470) Lioré et Olivier flying boat 1937 6
LN.41 (40, 402, 411, 420) Loire-Nieuport carrier dive bomber 1939 72
MB-131 Bloch recon / bomber 1936 144
MB-150 Bloch fighter 1937 1
MB-151 Bloch fighter 1938 140
MB-152 Bloch fighter 1938 488
MB-174 Bloch recon / bomber 1939 50
MB-175 Bloch recon / bomber 1939 56
MB-176 Bloch recon / bomber 1940 1
MB-210 Bloch bomber 1934 283
MB-411 Besson recon seaplane for submarine 1935 2
MS 405 Morane-Soulanier fighter 1937 17
MS 406 Morane-Soulanier fighter 1939 1081
MS 410 Morane-Soulanier fighter 1940 75
NC.470 Farman (S.N.A.C.) recon seaplane 1939 ~24
PL-15 Levasseur seaplane torpedo bomber 1932 17
PL-101 Levasseur carrier-borne recon biplane 1933 30
PL-101 Levasseur carrier-borne recon biplane 1933 30
Po 25 Potez recon biplane 1926 +3250
Po 29 Potez transport 1927 152
Po 39 (390, 391) Potez observation 1934 247
Po 452 Potez recon seaplane 1934 17
Po 540 Potez recon 1933 180
Po 541 Potez bomber 1934 1
Po 542 Potez recon 1935 66
Po 63.11 Potez reconnaissance 1939 +900
Po 630 Potez heavy figher 1936 87
Po 631 Potez heavy figher 1937 214
Po 633 Potez light bomber 1938 35
Po-CAMS 141 Potez flying boat (prototype) 1938 1
Po 650 Potez transport 1935 15
S.8 Calcutta Short (UK) flying boat 1935 15
VG 33 Arsenal fighter 1940 150
V-156-F
(USN SB2U Vindicator)
Vought (USA) fighter 1940 24
NOTES:
* Intro indicates first year the first version was introduced.
* Built indicates total number built for or delivered to the French Army and/or Navy, including those after the armistice.

Many aircraft were delivered without propellers, engines, or other vital equipment.
For example, over 150 Arsenal VG 33 had been built by June 1940, but only a dozen were airworthy. This can be said to apply to many aircraft, including those imported from the USA, many of which were sitting on the docks in their containers.
The French government nationalized aircarft factories on 16.11.1936, comprising the following groupings:
     
   SNCASE: Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est
      Lioré et Olivier at Argenteuil
      Lioré et Olivier at Clichy
      Potez at Berre
      C.A.M.S. at Vitrolles
      Romano at Cannes-la-Brocca
      S.P.C.A. at Marseille-Marignane
     
   SNCAM: Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Midi
      Dewoitine at Toulouse
     
   SNCAN: Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Nord
      Potez at Meaulte
      CAMS at Sartrouville
      A.N.F. les Mureaux at Les Mureaux
      Amiot at Caudebec-en-Caux
      Breguet at Havre
     
   SNCAO: Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques de l'Ouest
      Breguet at Nantes-Bouguenais
      Loire-Nieuport at Saint-Nazaire
      Loire-Nieuport at Issy-les-Moulineaux
     
   SNCAC: Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Centre
      Hanriot at Bourges
      Farman at Boulogne-Billancourt
     
   SNCASO: Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest
      Blériot at Suresnes
      Bloch at Villacoublay
      Bloch at Courbevoie
      S.A.S.O. at Bordeaux-Mérignac
      U.C.A. at Bordeaux-Bègles
      S.A.B. at Bordeaux-Bacalan
      Lioré et Olivier at Rochefort
 
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