The Société des Ateliers d'Aviation Louis Breguet also known as Breguet Aviation was a French aircraft manufacturer. The company was set up in 1911 by aviation pioneer Louis Charles Breguet.
The company, together with the British Aircraft Corporation, was a parent to SEPECAT which was formed to develop and produce the SEPECAT Jaguar aircraft.
In 1971 it merged with Dassault to form Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation.
Breguet-Richet Gyroplane (1907) - experimental single-seat helicopter-like craft with four rotors.Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No.2 (1908) Tandem biplane with a pair of large inclined propellers providing both thrust and lift.Breguet Type I (1909) - Single-seat tractor configuration biplane with boxkite-like tail on booms.Breguet Type II (1910) - Development of the Type I, with a tricycle undercarriage and the tail carried at the end of a fuselage-like structure and a pair of booms.Breguet Type III (1910) - Development of Type II, three-seat, rotary engineBreguet Type IV (1911) - Experimental aircraftBreguet Type R.U1 (1911) - Single-engine biplaneBreguet Aerhydroplane (1913) - Single-engine one-seat seaplane. Did not flyBreguet Bre.4 (1914) - Single-engine two-seat biplane bomber. Pusher configurationBreguet Bre.5 (1915) - Single-engine two-seat biplane escort fighter. Variant of Bre.4Breguet 6 (1915) - Version of Breguet 5 with different engineBreguet 12 (1918) - Version of Breguet 5 with 37mm cannon and searchlight (night fighter)Breguet 14 (1916) - Single-engine two-seat biplane bomber aircraftBreguet 16 (1918) - Larger version of Breguet 14. Bomber aircraftBreguet 17 (1918) - Smaller version of Breguet 14. Fighter aircraft.Breguet 19 (1922) - Single-engine two-seat biplane reconnaissance/light bomber/sport aircraftBreguet 20 (1922) - Twin/four-engine 20-seat airlinerBreguet 22 (1922-3) - Breguet 20 developmentBreguet 26T (1926) - Single-engine biplane eight-passenger airlinerBreguet 280T (1928) - Development of 26T with improved fuselage aerodynamicsLicense built Short S.8 Calcutta (1928) - Three-engine fifteen-seat biplane transport aircraftBreguet 27 (1929) - Single-engine two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraftBreguet 270 (1929) - Development of 27 using steel chassisBreguet 393T (1931) - Three-engine biplane airlinerBreguet 410 - Twin-engine light bomberBreguet-Dorand Gyroplane Laboratoire (1935) - Helicopter prototypeBreguet G.11E (1949) - coaxial helicopter prototypeBreguet 460 Vultur - Twin-engine light bomberBreguet 470 (1936) - Twin-engine airliner, only one unit built.Breguet 480 - Long-range bomber projectBreguet 482 (1947) - Four-engine bomber, designed prior to war, only a single unit builtBreguet 500 Colmar - Transport development of the Br.480Breguet 521 Bizerte (1933) - Development of the S.8 Calcutta. Long-range patrol flying boatBreguet 530 Saigon - Civilian version of 521Breguet 693 (1938) - Twin-engine two-seat monoplane ground attack/fighter aircraftBreguet 730 (1938) - Four-engine long-range flying boat. Piston engines. Also Br.731Breguet Deux-Ponts (1949) - Br.761/763/765 Four-engine double-deck large airliner. Piston engines.Breguet 790 Nautilus - Single-engine flying boatBreguet 890 Mercure - Civil/military transportBreguet Br 900 Louisette - (1948) Single-seat competition sailplane.Breguet Br 901 Mouette - (1954) Single-seat competition sailplane.Breguet Br 904 Nymphale - (1956) Two-seat sailplane.Breguet Br 905 Fauvette - (1958) Single-seat competition sailplane.Breguet 940 - Four-engine STOL transport aircraft. Turboprop enginesBreguet 941 (1961) - Four-engine STOL transport aircraft. Turboprop enginesBreguet Vultur (1951) - Br.960 Twin-engine two-seat naval anti-submarine aircraft. Jet engine and turboprop engine (mixed power)Breguet Taon (1957) - Br.1001 Single-engine single-seat jet strike aircraft.Breguet Alizé (1956) - Br.1050 Single-engine three-seat naval anti-submarine aircraft. Turboprop engineBreguet 1100 (1957) - Twin-engine jet fighterBreguet Atlantique (1961) - Br.1150 Twin-engine naval reconnaissance aircraft. Turboprop enginesLeduc 0.10Leduc 0.21Leduc 0.22Before 1914, in addition to producing aircraft, the firm produced a few six-cylinder engined cars.
During the Second World War the company produced an electric car powered by batteries and propelled by an "off-the-shelf" motor from Paris-Rhône. The motor was capable of producing two different levels of output. "First gear" and "Reverse gear" were provided with 36 volts, while "Second gear" equated to 72 volts. An advertisement for the car in 1941 claimed a range of 100 km (62 mi) between charges without mentioning that this range was only available where adhering to steady cruising speed of 20 km/h (12 mph). Cruising at a steady 40 km/h (25 mph) would, on the same basis, have given a range of 65 km (40 mi).
The car had a modern looking all-enveloping two-seater body with a relatively long tapered tail which contained the motor and some of the batteries. It had four wheels, but the rear axle, which delivered power to the road, was relatively narrow. The car was actively marketed during 1941 which was a period of price instability. In August 1941 the Breguet electric car was priced at 56,000 francs: during the same month the Citroën Light bodied 11 (still listed, despite production by now being down to a trickle or suspended) was priced at 35,630 francs.
The Breguet electric car was produced not at the firm's principal plant at Toulouse but at a smaller plant at Anglet (between Biarritz and Bayonne).
