SNCAC Martinet

The SNCAC Martinet was a German-designed but French-built twin-engined military trainer and light transport monoplane.

To aide the German war effort the SNCAC factory at Bourges was ordered to produce 455 Siebel Si 204s light transports for the Luftwaffe.

Only a prototype NC.700 was built powered by Renault 12S-00 engines (derived from the German AS-411) although the designation was also used for a small number of aircraft originally intended for the Luftwaffe and diverted to the French Air Force.

The company then produced two variants; the NC.701 Martinet based on the Si 204D with a glazed unstepped nose and powered by two Renault 12S engines, and the NC.702 Martinet with a conventional stepped windscreen nose based on the Si 204A.

A small number were used by commercial operators including Air France but were soon replaced by larger aircraft like the Douglas DC-3.

SNCAC NC.701 French Air Force North Africa. Compare the glazed nose to the NC.702 picture above
NC 702 3-view drawing from L'Aerophile magazine October 1946