Kellner-Béchereau

The company was founded in 1931 by Louis Béchereau together with the French automobile carriage-builder Georges Kellner.

[2][3] In 1936–37 Avions Kellner-Béchereau built a short series of small monoplanes exploiting one of Louis Béchereau's patents, a full span lateral division of the wing into two sections forming a "double wing".

Both of these were designed to meet the French Air Ministry's requirement for a pre-military trainer aircraft to be used by the clubs set up in the "Aviation Populaire" programme.

[4] The Kellner-Béchereau designs, however, were not ordered for the Aviation Populaire programme, the Air Ministry opting in favour of the Caudron C.270 and the Salmson Cri-Cri which were both bought in large numbers.

[5] In 1939 Georges Paulin, who in 1934 had designed the Peugeot 601 Éclipse convertible automobile,[6][7] joined the aerodynamical department of the Kellner-Béchereau factory.