Société Française d'Aviation Nouvelle (SFAN) Aircraft

[hesham]

Hi,


here is a picture to SFAN 5 ultra-light aircraft,and was powered by
one 60 hp pusher engine.


Le FANA 426

 

[robunos]

Looks very like the BAC Drone...

cheers,
Robin.

 

[cluttonfred]

That certainly makes sense as Aviafrance lists the SFAN II as a derivative of the Drone. Still the V-struts and stub wings appear to be innovations.

http://aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=10005&ID_CONSTRUCTEUR=1134&ANNEE=0&ID_MISSION=0&MOTCLEF=

Looks very like the BAC Drone...

cheers,
Robin.

 

[hesham]

Yes my dears,


the SFAN 1 was based on BAC Drone.

 

[cluttonfred]

More on the SFAN 5 from FLIGHT, November 19, 1936, p.556:

The Société Française d'Aviation Nouvelle exhibit a new type, the S.F.A.N. 5. This is a side-by-side two-seater, with the cockpit shielded by a large wide windscreen which sweeps up to the wing. Owing to the fact that the stub which carries the wing is ''hollow ground" and the fuselage width narrows fairly abruptly behind the cockpit, there is an open gap on each side at the back which should assist ventilation without causing draught in the cockpit. The engine of the S.F.A.N. 5 is a Train of 60 h.p., mounted above the wing and driving a pusher airscrew.

And an image, same source, p.554 (attached).

According to Aviation populaire ou aviation prolétaire by Vital Ferry, "The Farman Moustique, Léopoldoff Colibri and SFAN motorglider were produced in small numbers." It is not clear from the reference, however, whether we are talking about the earlier single-seat models or the two-seater presented here.

But according to the neat French glider database www.j2mcl-planeurs.net, which I just realized also includes motorgliders, the SFAN 5 was a one-off enclosed variant of the earlier SFAN 4, itself only built in a production run of--get ready for it--two machines, so I think we could safely move this topic to the "Early Aircraft Projects" sub-forum among other prototypes that never made it to production.

http://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-machines/planeur-fiche_0int.php/?code=1125
http://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-machines/planeur-fiche_0int.php/?code=1124

 

[hesham]

Hi,


here is the SFAN.1 3-view.


l'Aeronautique 1935

 

[toura]

From some old "Aviation magazine"

 

[toura]

the SFAN 1

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Toura.