The twin turboprop Sud Aviation SE-116 Voltigeur of the late 1950s was a French army support aircraft capable of observation and ground attack operations.

On the second prototype the Cyclones were replaced with 567 kW (760 hp) Turbomeca Bastan turboprops in much more slender cowlings on the top of the wings.

[4] Behind the wing trailing edge the fuselage carried perforated airbrakes[5] for ground attacks; the Voltigeur was fitted with two 20 mm (0.79 in) guns and six underwing attachment points for bombs and rockets.

A few weeks later, on 9 January 1959, Carpentier, Yves Crouzet and Marcel Hochet were killed when tail flutter developed in a high-speed run.

[3] After tests of the SE-117 first pre-production machine, conducted in collaboration with Marcel Dassault, the Voltigeur programme was abandoned along with a projected fast transport, the SE-118 Diplomate.