Industry Aeronautics, defence Products Aircraft Founded 1925 | Fate Merged | |
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Defunct February 1, 1937 (1937-02-01) | ||
The Société Provençale de Constructions Aéronautiques (SPCA) was an aircraft manufacturing company based in France, with its head office in Paris and its workshop in La Ciotat, Marseille.
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History
Founded by Georges Philippar in 1925, SPCA began as a subsidiary venture of SPCN (Société Provençale de Constructions Navales) shipbuilding company. Initially this aircraft builder was known particularly for its seaplanes.
None of the aircraft made by SPCA was built in large numbers. Part of them never even made it past the prototype stage, such as the SPCA Paulhan-Pillard T3, the first all-metal seaplane in France, built by Louis Paulhan and engineer Pillard in 1928.
The twin-engined SPCA Hermès built in 1930, as well as small planes named avions "de police coloniale", built until 1934, are developments about which there are almost no data.
In 1936 SPCA was nationalized and merged in 1937 with Lioré et Olivier, Potez, CAMS and Romano in order to form the Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est (SNCASE).