The Wibault company or Société des Avions Michel Wibault was a French aircraft manufacturing company. Its workshops were located in Billancourt, in the Paris area.
The Wibault company was established in 1919 by Michel Wibault. The planes produced by Wibault in the first decade included reconnaissance, fighter and bomber aircraft, but production shifted mainly to civilian aircraft after 1930.
Some of the Wibault designs were quite successful; the Vickers Wibault was a licensed version of the Wibault 7 built by the British company Vickers in the 1920s.
In 1930 Société des Avions Michel Wibault built the Wibault-Penhoët 280, which was funded by the Penhoët (Chantiers St. Nazairre) shipyard and the following year the companies merged to form Chantiers Aéronautiques Wibault-Penhoët. That company produced the Wibault-Penhoët 280 series of trimotor airliners, twelve of which were bought by Air France. They also built transport and racing types but in 1934 were taken over by Breguet Aviation who built several Wibault designs including the Breguet 670 twin-engined airliner.
Wibault 1 fighter 1918Wibault 2 night bomber 1921Wibault 3 fighter 1923Wibault 7 fighter 1924Wibault 72 fighter 1928Wibault 73 fighter 1927Wibault 74 fighter 1930Wibault 8 Simoun fighterWibault 9 fighter 1926Wibault 10 twin boom projectWibault 10/II re-allocated for two-seat parasol wing reconnaissance aircraft, built for A.2 1923 competitionWibault 12 Sirocco fighterWibault 121 Sirocco reconnaissanceWibault 122 fighterWibault 123 reconnaissanceWibault 124 surveillance 1929Wibault 125 reconnaissance 1930Wibault 13 Trombe I single seat lightweight fighter to C.1 1926 Jockey fighter contestWibault 130 Trombe I fighterWibault 170 Tornade fighter 1928Wibault 210 fighter 1929Wibault 220 reconnaissance 1930Wibault 240 transport seaplane 1933Wibault 260 long range reconnaissance 1930Wibault 280T civil airliner 1930Wibault 281TWibault 282TWibault 283TWibault 313Wibault 360T5 civil airliner 1931Wibault 361Wibault 362Wibault 363Wibault 364Wibault 365Wibault 366Wibault 367Wibault 368Breguet-Wibault 670 civil airliner 1935Wibault 4 heavy bomber project (no data)Wibault 5 single-seat parasol-wing fighter project, submitted to C.1 1923Wibault 6 two-seat parasol-wing fighter derivative of Wibault 5Wibault 11 single-seat fighter project powered by one 500 hp engine, for C.1 1923Wibault 14 two-seat parasol wing tourist aircraft projectWibault 14H a floatplane version of Wibault 14Wibault 15 single-seat fighter project to C.1 1926 contestWibault 160 Trombe II a more powerful version of Wibault 130 Trombe I, also for C.1 1926Wibault 230 three-engined transport aircraft project (no data)Wibault 270 single-seat lightweight fighter project for C.1 1928Wibault 330 transport aircraft (no more details)Wibault 340 two-seat low-wing tourist aircraft project
