Potez 62
| Potez 62/621/650 | |
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| Type: | Airliner , transport aircraft |
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| First flight: |
January 28, 1935 |
| Commissioning: |
1935 |
| Number of pieces: |
86 |
The Potez 62 was a twin-engine airliner made by the French manufacturer Potez in the 1930s. It offered space for 16 passengers. Most of the 35 civilian aircraft built came into the possession of Air France , one of which served the French Minister of Aviation as a touring aircraft.
The 50 machines put into service by the French Air Force as the Potez 650 TT were used as troop transports or as medical aircraft.
history
The aircraft designed by Henry Potez was based on the Potez 54 bomber . The prototype made its maiden flight on January 28, 1935. In the same year the manufacturer presented the improved version 621.
construction
The Potez 62 was a braced high- wing aircraft and was largely made of metal. The landing gear was retractable. The bow could be opened and contained a cargo and luggage compartment.
The two-part passenger cabin was designed for either fourteen or sixteen passengers. As a troop transport, the aircraft offered space for fourteen soldiers; as a medical aircraft, it could take one attendant, six lying and four seated wounded.
Two 640 kW Mistral radial engines from Gnôme et Rhône mounted under the wings served as drive . In the improved version 621 V12 engines Hispano-Suiza-12Xrs with 530 kW were used. The military version was also equipped with Hispano-Suiza V12 engines. Some civil models were converted to the Gnome-Rhone radial engine 12N16 / 17 with 662 kW in 1939.
use
The Potez 62 was used on the route from Paris to Rome from 1935. Until the Second World War , the aircraft operated on other European and South American routes as well as on the connection from Paris to Saigon. One machine later came into the possession of the Air Force of Free France.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
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| crew | 2 |
| Passengers | 16 |
| length | 17.32 m |
| span | 22.45 m |
| height | 3.90 m |
| Wing area | 76 m² |
| payload | 1,580 kg |
| Takeoff weight | 7,500 kg |
| Cruising speed | 280 km / h |
| Top speed | 325 km / h |
| Service ceiling | 7,500 m |
| Range | 1,000 km |
| Engines | two radial engines Gnome-Rhone 14Kirs Mistral with 640 kW each |
