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    The Potez 630 and its derivatives were a family of twin-engined, multirole aircraft developed for the French Air Force in the late 1930s. The design was...
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    Potez 37 Potez 38 Potez 39 Potez 42 Potez 43 Potez 50 Potez 53 Potez 54 Potez 56 Potez 58 Potez 60 Potez 62 Potez 63 Potez 65 Potez 75 Potez 91 Potez...
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  • built) Potez 630 fighter/trainer Potez 631 day/night twin-engine fighter (215 built) Potez 633 light bomber Potez 637 reconnaissance Potez 63.11...
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    light machine guns. In response, French aircraft manufacturer Potez developed the Potez 63 series. The basic design was close to the original specification;...
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    Potez 25 (also written as Potez XXV) was a French twin-seat, single-engine sesquiplane designed during the 1920s. A multi-purpose fighter-bomber, it was...
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    The Potez 540 was a French multi-role aircraft of the 1930s. Designed and built by Potez, it served with the French Air Force as a reconnaissance bomber...
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    The Potez 840 was a 1960s French four-engined 18-passenger executive monoplane, the last aircraft to use the Potez name. The Potez 840 was an all-metal...
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    two days, without seeing combat. On 19 May, Galland shot down a French Potez aircraft. During this flight he ran out of fuel short of the runway and...
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    day for a period of four weeks, shooting down a Vichy French Air Force Potez 63 on 8 June and another Ju 88 on 15 June. In a memoir, Dahl recounts in detail...
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    two sloops, five submarines, 17 Morane-Saulnier 406 fighters and ten Potez 63 bombers.[citation needed] The beach landings met with virtually no resistance...
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    The Potez 75 was a low-cost, simple, ground-support, observation and launch aircraft for anti-tank missiles, designed and built in the early 1950s, for...
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    The Potez 650 was a French-built military transport aircraft that saw service in World War II. Derived from the Potez 62 airliner, the 650 was specifically...
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    The Potez 56 was a 1930s French executive transport monoplane built by Potez and later used as a military crew trainer and liaison aircraft. Potez began...
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    Squadron/Signal. ISBN 0897470869. Thompson, Jonathan W. (1963). Italian Civil and Military aircraft 1930–1945. USA: Aero Publishers. ISBN 0816865000. LCCN 63-17621....
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    twin-engined monoplanes of slender form and all-metal construction. Of the French Potez 63, Polish PZL.38 Wilk and German Messerschmitt Bf 110 Kampfzerstörer (battle...
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  • French Flight N° 2 was stationed at Haifa and initially consisted of one Potez 63.11 (a second and third arriving on 14 October and 3 November 1940 respectively)...
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    many losses. By May 1940, all metropolitan units had been converted to Potez 63.11 aircraft, with only the African groupe retaining them for front-line...
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  • The Potez XV (also erroneously written Potez 15) was a French single-engine, two-seat observation biplane designed as a private venture by Louis Coroller...
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    et Olivier LeO 20 Morane-Saulnier Vanneau Potez 220 Potez 630 Potez 631 Potez 633 Potez 637 Potez 63.11 Potez 662 Roussel R-30 SNCAO CAO.600 SNCASE SE-400...
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  • l'Armée de l'air, 1997). The exact number of Potez 25 is unknown; there were around seventy. Three Potez 63 destined for China were also requisitioned in...
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    Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 fighters and damaging two more as well as two Potez 63.11s. The following day a ground assault began, with Indomitable's Albacores...
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    The Potez 62 was a French twin-engine civil airliner, designed by Henry Potez in 1934. The French military adapted this airframe two-years later to create...
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    aircraft attacked the airfield, destroying some modern Potez 63 aircraft as well some older Potez 25 biplanes.[citation needed] After Syrian independence...
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  • Hurricane on 20 May, two days later he claimed two Breguet 690 bombers and a Potez 630 near Cambrai. In a sortie on 25 August during the Battle of Britain...
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    Potez 43 family, tracing its roots from Potez 36. An airframe changed little from Potez 43, main difference were stronger engines. A prototype Potez 58...
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  • The Potez 220 was a prototype French twin-engined, three-seat reconnaissance and army cooperation aircraft. Two examples were built in 1939, but no production...
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    reconnaissance Piper L-4 liaison Potez 25 observation Potez 29 transport Potez 540 transport Potez 63.11 reconnaissance Potez 650 transport Republic P-47D...
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  • his first victory of World War II on 5 November 1939 downing a French Potez 63 reconnaissance aircraft near Saarburg. On 21 April 1940, Mayer claimed...
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    bought the Alessandro Anzani company in 1923. Many Potez planes, such as the Potez 25, 39, 54, 62, 63, were an international success, setting world records...
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  • On 7 June, he claimed his fourth victory and his last in France over a Potez 630 near Dunkirk. JG 27 transferred to the Netherlands, Belgium and France...
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