SFCA Lignel 46 Coach

The SFCA Lignel 46 Coach was a French four seat touring aircraft built soon after World War II.

It was SFCA's last design, with two prototypes built, flown and raced but engine supply problems prevented production.

The Lignel 46 was a wooden aircraft and its monocoque fuselage was built using a composite shell composed of perforated cork sheets between inner and outer shaped plywood layers, a method patented by Jean Broudeau and one that SFCA had explored before World War II.

[3] Apart from its variable incidence tailplane,[3] mounted at mid-height on the fuselage, the empennage was conventional, with a rounded fin and rudder.

[5] The following year the second prototype F-BCFS[1] participated in the South Coast race in England, flown by its designer,[6] finishing well down the field[7] despite recording a speed of 262 km/h (163 mph).