BLOCH, MARCEL, SOCIETE DES AVI0NS

FRANCE

In 1933 Marcel Bloch established a small MB-131 factory at Courbevoie, Paris, to build light aircraft. In 1933-34 the company built its first fighter aircraft, the Bloch 130, the first flight of this prototype M.B.150 being made on 29 June 1934. Production Bloch 131s entered service in 1938. Subsequent production included the Bloch 151 /152/155 monoplane fighter, Bloch 175 light bomber, 174/175 and Bloch MB 200 and MB 210 bomber aircraft. Nationalization of the French aircraft industry in 1937 combined the Bleriot and Bloch companies as Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques de Sud-Ouest, with Marcel Bloch as managing director. Back to the letter B

All the World's Rotorcraft Virtual Aircraft Museum M.B.81 M.B.200 M.B.210 M.B.120 MB-131 M.B.150 M.B.220 174/175 M.B.161 Languedoc M.B.162 M.B.157