SNCAO

The Société Nationale de Constructions de l' Ouest Aéronautiques, SNCAO abbreviated, was a French aircraft manufacturer.

The SNCAO was created in 1936 as part of the nationalization of the French aircraft industry as a merger of three factories: Breguet in Nantes and Loire - Nieuport - Bouguenais in Saint- Nazaire and Issy -les -Moulineaux. She went in 1941 in the SNCASO on.

When SNCAO were at the time of the Armistice in the Battle of France 1940 40 flying boats of the type SNCAO CAO.30 and 12 fighter aircraft of the type SNCAO CAO.200 in production. These aircraft were never completed. A promising project was the heavy bomber SNCAO CAO.700, the prototype took off shortly before the end of combat operations on its first flight in June 1940.