Bloch MB.220

The Bloch MB.220 was a twin-engine of transport built by the Société of the Planes Marcel Bloch.

Resulting from the experience gained with bomber MB.210, it accomplished its first flight on June 11th 1936 with Villacoublay.

Its architecture was largely inspired by the Douglas DC-2 with an entirely metal coating, a low aerofoil cantilever with leading edge in light arrow and trailing edge perpendicular to the reference axis. Its crew was composed of 2 pilots and 2 stewarts for a capacity of 16 passengers.

Air France ordered 16 specimens of them by giving to each plane the name of a province: Alsace, Anjou, Aunis, Auvergne, Berry, Champagne, Flanders, Gascogne, Guyenne, Languedoc, Lorraine, Poitou, Provence, Roussillon, Saintonge and Savoy.

In addition to its regular business services, the MB.220 will be used by the French government for official displacements. It is the “MB.220 Poitou” which the president of the Council Edouard Daladier uses when it will meet Hitler to sign the Accords of Munich on September 28th 1938. It takes off of the Le Bourget the 28 with 8:30 and will return the 29 to 13:00 where waits an innumerable crowd to acclaim it.

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the MB.220 on the site Dassault-Aviation

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