Sud-Ouest SO 4050 Vautour (Vulture)

Another One

12 8 A Kibbutz Kfar Giladi

see more images at:
http://www.fresh.co.il/dcforum/Army/10033.html

There is one Vautour preserved outside the Airbus factory at Saint-Nazaire airport in front of an SO.30P Bretagne. Can someone identify the Vautour (c/n please)

Hello,

The Saint-Nazaire Vautour is the 632 (c/n 106).
Here is a list I made of the remaining Vautours :

c/n s/n type Location

2 2 A Savigny (exhibited)
4 301 N Hatzerim, IAF Museum (F-ZADE, Cyrano Ibis testbed, 70 in IAF)
6 302 N Hao (gate guard)
11 304 N-PP Savigny (F-ZADR, Agaric testbed, exhibited)
18 308 N-PP Chateaudun (stored)
30 15 A Hatzerim, IAF Museum (09, exhibited)
36 17 A Haïfa (12)
61 26 A Ramat David (126)
69 330 N Dugny, Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace (stored)
78 615 1BR Chateaudun
84 337 N Melun-Villaroche, SNECMA Museum (gate guard, F-ZADN, RDM Testbed)
85 338 N Montpellier
95 624 B Hatzerim, IAF Museum (33)
106 632 B-GE St Nazaire (gate guard, Airbus)
109 634 BR Dugny, Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace (stored)
112 636 B-GE Bordeaux, Conservatoire de l’Air et de l’Espace d’Aquitaine (exhibited : http://caea.free.fr/en/coll/vautour2b.html)
114 347 N Reims (gate guard)
116 348 N ?, Association des Mécaniciens-Pilotes d’Aéronefs Anciens (F-ZADP, RDY testbed, F-AZHP in the warbird circuit, between 90 and 96, stored since : http://membres.lycos.fr/neo2097/vautour.htm)
119 640 1B Toulouse, Ailes Anciennes Toulouse (exhibited : http://www.aatlse.org/collection_avion_vautour.php)
125 355 N Bretigny (F-ZADH, Antilope testbed)
128 358 N Orange (F-ZADB, Antilope V testbed)
134 364 N Mont-de-Marsan (stored)
140 370 N Solenzara (gate guard)

A : Attaque/Ground attack
N : Nuit/All-weather interceptor
B : Bombardier/Bomber
PP : Prélèvement de Particules/Nuclear dust taking
GE : Guerre Electronique/Electronic Warfare
R : Reconnaissance
1 : all-moving horizontal tail

Some pictures of the 636, under restoration in Bordeaux :

Pierre-Clément

preserved Vautour

in the collection of teh CAEA museum at Bordeaux Merignac
greetz,

Aerovet

There was indeed a civilian registered Vautour flown on the warbird circuit approximately ten years ago. She is grounded with hydraulics problems.

Willy
FYI, I’ve now found the attached photo which I took of the civil registered Vautour when it was displayed at Ferte Alais. I’ve also attached a shot of the example preserved by the Musee de’l Air at Le Bourget, in the days when it was on show on the main ramp. I recall visiting Reims air base and seeing many examples operational back in the late sixties/early seventies.

I’d like to see one next to a Canberra – where their roles similar?

Canberra was slightly larger but looked squatter. Canberra span = 64ft, len = 66ft. Vatour span = 49ft 6in, len = 51ft.

A couple of Vatour sqns used to visit with us regularly when I was on B(I)8s at Geilenkirchen for very agreeable “mutal” play-days. Noisy beasts and, as I recall, prone to hydraulic snags.

There was indeed a civilian registered Vautour flown on the warbird circuit approximately ten years ago. She is grounded with hydraulics problems. Details can be found on a Yahoo forum. If someone is interested, I might dig in.

There is one Vautour preserved outside the Airbus factory at Saint-Nazaire airport in front of an SO.30P Bretagne. Can someone identify the Vautour (c/n please)

Formidable! Merci.

Superb(e) !!! 🙂

Hi Charley, Hi Fred,
I found those pictures in my attic,

Jacques SANTI (one of the two main actors) in his strato suite
+ Jacques SANTI & Christian Marin (the two main actors + unknown)

Enjoy,

Olivier

Les Chevaliers du Ciel:

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000199MCM/403-5756496-9684405

A movie can be seen in France since fex days:

http://www.leschevaliers-lefilm.com/site/intro.html

Hi Charley,
“Aeronauts” must be “les chevalier du ciel” according to Google search.
Yes they are available on DVD (I will search for you latter , I’m at work now!!!)
About the cost, it was more for the tax payer than for the production, as the French Air Force and the army in general used this as “public relation” or “propaganda” .

Cheers,

Olivier

It was called “The Aeronauts” over here and shown on BBC. Do you know if it is available in France on DVD or video? Must have cost a lot of money to make if it featured jet-flying scenes.

Been fond of the Vautour ever since seeing it in my “Aeronauts” annual. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the TV series? Doesn’t matter if it’s in French; I can usually understand French TV.

Hi Charley,
Do you mean “les chevalier du ciel” ?

Cheers,

Olivier

IIRC a Vatour stood at Kenley for a number of weeks in the late 1950s. The Daily Mail had organised a contest to see who could make the fastest trip between London and Paris (Marble Arch and Arc de Triomphe?), and one of the entrants was a frenchwoman. She persuaded the air force to lend her a Vatour and pilot – easier than it sounds as I believe she had been a heroine of the Resistance. However the pilot mistook disused Kenley for his destination and landed there, damaging the aircraft so that it could not be flown out.

There was an article in Flypast some years ago…

Adrian

Been fond of the Vautour ever since seeing it in my “Aeronauts” annual. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the TV series? Doesn’t matter if it’s in French; I can usually understand French TV.

Fantastic!!. Ain’t she beutiful. Thanks

Rgds Cking

Breguet Deux Ponts restaurant

At last! I can reveal my French secret – “Le Breguet” restaurant not far from La Ferte Alais, at the Aerodrome de Chaubuisson, 77610 Fontenay-Tresigny. I was there with AIB and Mike J and even managed to snap the owner, M. Charpentier, I believe.
The aircraft is F-BACC, and the coffee is great! Unfortunately we didn’t have time for a meal, but I am sure it is well worth a visit. There is a swimming pool too! 40 km from Paris, off the N4.

On of the two last preserved in France (justfour were used by French Air Force):

It’s a Sahara the marmy type of the Breguet “Deux-Ponts”

It hasn’t engine. Four replica of them were build.

You can picts of them on Airliner.com

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/818864/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/293342/L/

NC900, could I be VERY cheeky and put in a request?. In your vast collection of French gems, have you any pictures of the Breguet 765 Sahara?. It has been my favorite Frence aircraft since I saw one at R.A.F. Odiham in the early seventies. Eaven then at the tender age of six it impressed me!.

Rgds Cking

salut fred,
Non, malheureusement ! many thanks to remember us this very good book wrote by A. Crosnier, unfortunatly out of print.

here is a link about books on the subject:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1467/biblio.htm

Thanks again Fred,
Cheers,

Olivier

I have it …if you want some informations ! 😉