SABCA Demonty-Poncelet limousine

The leading edge of each half-wing was straight and unswept over the inner half of the span where the chord increased outwards from the root, but the outer section was straight-tapered to squared tips.

Folding the wings around a joint at the forward spar root for transport or storage reduced the width to 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in)[1] and took less than five minutes.

Behind the engine, its upper parts under a narrow cowling, the mahogany plywood-covered, elm-framed fuselage was rectangular in section but tadpole-shaped in profile, deep below the wing but slender aft.

It had no fixed tailplane but its balanced elevator, with a slightly swept leading edge and almost semi-circular, fabric-covered rear, was hinged at the extreme tail.

The fin, built integral to the fuselage, was triangular and the fabric-covered rudder was rhomboidal, leaving a space below for elevator movement.

[4] At the beginning of July it was one of thirteen small aircraft entered for the Tour de France des avionettes.

There may have been a second example; O-BAFV appeared in the register in 1926 as a SABCA Demonty-Poncelet 1 but, in the absence of photographs or definite contemporary comments on a second limousine, its type remains uncertain.

SABCA Demonty-Poncelet limousine 3-view drawing from NACA-TM-301