Franco-British Aviation

Franco-British Aviation
legal form	Corporation
founding	1913
resolution	1934 by Société des Avions Bernard bought
Seat	London , UK
management	Louis Schreck , André Beaumont
Branch	Military and civil seaplanes

Franco-British Aviation ( FBA ) was an aircraft manufacturer based in London with manufacturing facilities near Paris . The company specializing in seaplanes was founded by Louis Schreck and André Beaumont .

history

Louis Schreck was the technical director of the company division in Argenteuil . First activity of the company was the construction of a flying boat hull from Donnet-Lévêque type. The first airplane was a biplane . Between the wings was a motor and a propeller in pusher configuration . It was initially referred to as FBA-Leveque and later renamed FBA Type A. Various variants were derived from this, which were used by the armed forces of the Triple Entente - France , United Kingdom and Russian Empire . During the First World War , large numbers of small flying boats were produced for France, the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, and Italy .

After the war, the company became purely French and was named Hydravions Louis Schreck FBA . The production of flying boats continued and in the 1920s the company reached its peak. Aircraft were produced for the armed forces of France, England and Italy. In 1922 Émile Paumier became technical director and developed the FBA series of type 10. The FBA 17 model was sold over 300 units. As of the FBA 19 model, the pusher configuration was abandoned in favor of a pull propeller design.

As orders fell, production was stopped in 1931 and the company was sold to Société des Avions Bernard in 1934 . However, a year later, Bernard went bankrupt.

Planes

designation	design type	number	Remarks	First flight	Users
FBA type A	Biplane seaplane with a reconnaissance engine	120	Also called FBA Leveque .	1913	Austria-Hungary , Brazil , Denmark , Italy , United Kingdom , Russia
FBA type B	Double-decker seaplane with one engine	230		1914	France , United Kingdom , Russia , Portugal , Italy
FBA Type C	Double-decker seaplane with one engine	330		1915	France , Italy
FBA type H	Double-decker seaplane with one engine	1400		1915	France , Italy
FBA type S	Double-decker seaplane with one engine			1917
FBA 10	Double-decker seaplane with one engine	2		1922
FBA 11	Double-decker seaplane with one engine	1	Variant of Type C for training purposes	1923
FBA 13	Double-decker seaplane with one engine	1	For training purposes	1922
FBA 14	Double-decker seaplane with one engine	20th	Further development of Type 11 for training purposes		France
FBA 16	Double-decker seaplane with one engine	1
FBA 17	Double-decker seaplane with one engine, two-seater for training purposes	348	Produced under license in the USA as Viking	1923	Brazil , France , Poland , United States
FBA 19	Amphibious biplane seaplane with a reconnaissance engine	9	A three-seater prototype version 19 HMT3 was also built	1924
FBA 21	Amphibious biplane seaplane with one engine for civilian transport	7th	Civilian version of the Type 19 for 4 passengers	1925
FBA 171	Variant of Type 17 for use on an aircraft catapult	1
FBA 172	Variant of Type 17 for use on an aircraft catapult	7th		1932
FBA 270	Double-decker seaplane with one engine, two-seater	1		1929	France
FBA 271	Single-engine, two-seater amphibious double-decker seaplane	2		1930
FBA 290	Prototype of an amphibious double-decker seaplane with one engine, four-seater	1		1931
FBA 291	Prototype variant of Type 290	1
FBA 293	Variant of Type 291	6th			France
FBA 294	Variant of Type 293	2			France
FBA 310	Amphibious monoplane seaplane for civil use	9		1930

Web links

• Entry Franco British Aviation at Avia France.
• Les hydravions FBA type 17

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bill Gunston: World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers: From the Pioneers to the Present Day . Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Pub. (2nd ed.), 2005, ISBN 978-0-7509-3981-2 .
2. ↑ David Mondey: The International Encyclopedia of Aviation . New York: Crown, 1977, ISBN 978-0-517-53157-0 , p. 220.