In 1971 Dassault acquired Breguet, forming Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation (AMD-BA).

[4] In 1936 the arms industry in France was nationalised as the Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest (SNCASO).

[5] During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany the country's aviation industry was virtually disbanded.

In 1944 Bloch was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp by the German occupiers where he remained until it was liberated on 11 April 1945.

On 10 November 1945, at an extraordinary general meeting of the Société Anonyme des Avions Marcel Bloch the company voted to change its form to a limited liability entity, Société des Avions Marcel Bloch, which was to be a holding company.

The American company Atlantic Aviation based in Wilmington, Delaware, was acquired in October 2000.Airbus sold some of its ownership back to Dassault in 2014,[9] and further reduced its share to 27% in 2015[10] then to 10% in 2016.