Avions Mauboussin

Avions Mauboussin
Company type	automobiles design and design and manufacture of aircraft
Industry	aircraft and space construction
Predecessor	Peyret-Mauboussin
Founded	1935
Defunct	1944
Fate	acquired by Fouga
Successor	Etablissements Fouga et Compagnie
Headquarters	France

Avions Mauboussin is a French aircraft manufacturer created in the 1930s.

Formation

Pierre Mauboussin had been in partnership with Louis Peyret from 1928 and had jointly designed three types of light sporting aircraft. Mauboussin left the firm in 1933 after the death of Peyret and established his own aircraft design company. The company was acquired by Fouga in 1936, but continued to produce further designs until 1948.

Aircraft designs

Mauboussin M.112 Corsaire (6 built, first original Peyret PM XII)^[1]
Mauboussin M.120 Corsaire series: (over 100 built pre and postwar)^[2]
Mauboussin M.40 Hemiptere: (1 single-seat double monoplane built in 1936)
Mauboussin M.200 series: (2 low-wing aircraft built 1939-1941)
Mauboussin M.300: (1 or 2 twin-engined low wing trainers built in 1948)

Surviving aircraft

Nine M.120 Corsaire series aircraft survived in French aircraft collections and museums during 2005.^[3] A few examples are still airworthy.

References

Citations

^ Castello, 1993, p.36
^ Simpson, 2005, p. 137
^ Ogden, 2006, p.558

Bibliography

Ogden, Bob (2006). Aviation Museums and Collections of Mainland Europe. Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-375-7.
Simpson, Rod (2005). The General Aviation Handbook. Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-222-5.

Castello, Christian (1993). Planeurs et Avions Castel Mauboussin Fouga. Le Lezard. ISBN 2-907384-91-0.
Jean-Marc Olivier (dir.), Les avions Mauboussin. Une aventure technologique, industrielle et humaine, Toulouse, Privat, 2023, 200 p.