SABCA

SABCA (Sociétés Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques) is a Belgian aerospace company, controlled by Dassault Group and Fokker. Fokker is owned by GKN.

The company was formed in 1920.

Its main sectors of activity are civil aviation, space and defence.

The company has three locations:

• Brussels - headquarters and main centre of operations
• Charleroi - military aircraft and helicopter maintenance, technical and logistic support to the customers, opened in 1954
• Limburg - high-performance composite component manufacturing subsidiary opened in 1989

Products

• SABCA-Julien SJ 1 - Monoplane
• Gambier-SABCA
• SABCA Castar - 1923 Monoplane, also known as the Poncelet Castar
• SABCA Camgul - 1925 single-engine biplane
• Airco DH.4 - (15 built in 1926)
• SABCA S.2 - 1926 single-engine airliner
• SABCA S.11 - 1931 trimotor airliner
• SABCA S.12
• SABCA S.20
• SABCA S.30 - 1936
• SABCA S.40 - 1939 trainer
• SABCA S.45 - licence-built Caproni Ca.135
• SABCA S.46 - licence-built Caproni Ca.310
• SABCA S.47 - licence-built Caproni Ca.335
• SABCA S.48 - licence-built Caproni Ca.312
• SABCA S.60

References

• Grey John C.G. & Bridgman, Leonard. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938. Sampson Low, Marston & company, ltd. . London. 1938
• "SABCA aircraft". belgian-wings.be. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 23 May 2011.

External links

• SABCA
• Documents and clippings about SABCA in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW