Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine

The air carriers Chantiers Aero -Maritimes de la Seine, which was mostly known as CAMS, was a French flying boat manufacturer based in Saint- Ouen.

History

The history of the CAMS began in 1916 as Lawrence Santoni the official importer of Italian flying boat manufacturer Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia ( SIAI ) was. The AIIS was founded in 1915 by Luigi and Raffaele Cape Conflenti in Italy. In early 1920 agreed Santoni with the owners of SIAI an agreement on a production site in France. The Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia later passed into the SIAI - Marchetti.

Lawrence Santoni founded in November 1920, the CAMS in Saint -Ouen. In 1921, the Italian aircraft designer Raffaele Conflenti technical director of the new French company Chantiers Aero -Maritimes de la Seine, which the SIAI models P.9, P.13 and P.16 initially produced under license. From 1922 developed Raffaele Conflenti own flying boats and the licensed production was abandoned. Under his leadership many new flying boat types emerged.

The first model from the French company was the CAMS 30E. It was a seaplane, which acquired the French Government at CAMS for the Military Aviation School. From 1926 on, the company was led by the aviation engineer Maurice Hurel. The main products were mainly the military seaplane CAMS led to the positive result of the company's 37 alone around 300 copies were made ​​of this model and of the CAMS 55 115 units were sold.

In financial difficulties CAMS came from 1930. Due to several new development projects, including a seaplane carrier for the North Atlantic. 1932 CAMS was insolvent and was founded in 1933, acquired by Henry Potez, having worked as a French Potez aircraft manufacturer. The factory at Saint- Ouen after aircraft for Potez were produced which were known in the market as POTEZ -CAMS. 1936 CAMS joined the Association Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud -Est at.

Potez came mid-1960s themselves into trouble. After the Potez 840 turboprop could not prevail in this market segment, Potez had to cease production. In 1967 the entire plant facilities were taken over by the Sud Aviation.

Type summary (excerpt)

  • CAMS 30E (1922 )
  • CAMS 31 (1922 )
  • CAMS 33B, C ( 1923)
  • CAMS 33T
  • CAMS 30T (1924 )
  • CAMS 36
  • CAMS 37 (1926 )
  • CAMS 38
  • CAMS 46E (1926 )
  • CAMS 46ET (1926 )
  • CAMS 50
  • CAMS 51 (1926 )
  • CAMS 52
  • CAMS 53 (1928 )
  • CAMS 54
  • CAMS 55 (1928 )
  • CAMS 58
  • CAMS 80
  • CAMS 90
  • Potez -CAMS 110 (1934)
  • Potez -CAMS 120
  • Potez -CAMS 141
  • Potez -CAMS 160
  • Potez -CAMS 161 (1938)
Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) Potez-CAMS 161
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