Bordeaux-Aéronautique
| Industry | Aerospace, Defense |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1939 |
| Founder |
Marcel Dassault (born Marcel Bloch) |
| Headquarters | Talence, France |
|
Key people
|
André Curvale Henri Deplante Claude de Cambronne. |
| Products | Civil aircraft Military aircraft |
| Parent | Dassault Group |
Bordeaux Aéronautique (BA) is a French aeronautic company founded during the German occupation of France in World War II, on 17 March 1939, by Marcel Bloch, André Curvale, Henri Deplante and Claude de Cambronne.
Facing plane production increase, the SAAMB buy in September 1939, in Talence, near Bordeaux, industrial buildings in a workshop next to the Château de Brama (also called Castle of Edward, the Black Prince) which is retroceded to Bordeaux-Aéronautique. France produces at that time the most important rearmament.
The company was supposed to produce for the Vichy French Air Force, front fuselages of Bloch MB.175 and Bloch MB.1020 aircraft, but production stopped at the end of 1940, when Marcel Bloch is arrested on 6 October 1940. During his detention at Thiers, theCommissariat général aux questions juives sends to the regional directions of the economic epuration service of Marseilles and Limoges the order to investigate the Bloch companies.
Bloch MB 170
Bloch MB 170
Bloch MB 174
The Comité d'organisation de l'aéronautique directed by Joseph Roos achieves to slow down all processes of Aryanisation, but in 1942, the German authorities of the Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich (MBF) names a short-term administrator of the Bloch company in Saint-Cloud, Jean de Broë. On 20 December 1940, Marcel Bloch delegates authority to Henri Carol.
Vichy French Air Force uses Bloch MB.150 family fighter aircraft and Bloch MB.170 family bomber aircraft, equipping all fighter and bomber units in the unoccupied zone under the Franco-German Agreements. Also being limited to three groups stationed in North Africa. In November, 173 MB.152/155 are gathered at Guyancourt, Orange-Caritat and Châteauroux, for use in training fighter pilots for the Luftwaffe.
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