SNCAC NC.2001 Abeille

The SNCAC NC.2001 Abeille (English: Bee) was a single engine, twin intermeshing rotor helicopter designed and built in France in the late 1940s.

The design of the Abeille was directed by René Dorand at the helicopter division of SNCAC.

[2][3] Aft, a high mounted boom carried the empennage, which on the first prototype consisted of a tall T-tail with a narrow fin.

[3] The Abeille's fixed main landing gear had two wheels on a single axle positioned a little behind the rotor shafts and mounted on broad, single struts to the mid-upper fuselage, together with a smaller nose wheel.

SNCAC was closed in that month, its assets distributed between three remaining state owned firms and as a result the Abeille programme was abandoned; the second machine did not fly again and the third never flew.