Blériot Aéronautique

A Blériot XI aircraft in flight

Blériot Aéronautique was a French aircraft manufacturer founded by Louis Blériot. It also made a few cyclecars from 1921 to 1922.

After Louis Blériot became famous for being the first to fly over the English Channel in 1909, he established an aircraft manufacturing company. This company really took off during World War I and a British factory was established in Addlestone. The British factory made both Blériot and Spad fighter planes during the war. The French factory in Suresnes made cyclecars after the war with 2-cylinder 2-stroke engines and shaft drive.

[edit] Aircraft

• Blériot V (1907) Single-seat, single-engine monoplane of canard configuration
• Blériot VI (1907) Single-seat, single-engine aircraft of tandem-wing configuration
• Blériot XI (1909) Single-seat, single-engine monoplane of conventional configuration
• Blériot XII (1909) Single-seat, single-engine high-wing monoplane
• Blériot 110 (1930) Single-seat, single-engine high-wing long-distance monoplane
• Blériot 5190 (1933) Four-engine, transatlantic parasol-wing monoplane flying boat

[edit] Sources

Georgano, Nick (Ed.) (2000). The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN 1-57958-293-1.

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