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Fate. Acquired by Blériot Aeronautique. Brand retired in 1921. SPAD ( Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés) was a French aircraft manufacturer active between 1911 and 1921. Its SPAD S.XIII biplane was the most produced French fighter airplane of the First World War .
- 1921
- Armand Deperdussin
- 1911
- Aeronautics
SPAD S.VII. The SPAD S.VII was the first of a series of highly successful biplane fighter aircraft produced by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD) during the First World War. Like its successors, the S.VII was renowned as a sturdy and rugged aircraft with good climbing and diving characteristics.
- May 1916
- Louis Béchereau
- ~6000
- SPAD
En 1921, Louis Blériot décide la fusion de Blériot Aéronautique et de la Société pour l'aviation et ses dérivés (SPAD), la nouvelle entité s'appelant « Blériot-S.P.A.D. ». À cette date, les actifs de Blériot-S.P.A.D. comprennent l’usine de Suresnes (28 000 m 2), l’école de pilotage de Pau, les ateliers et l’école de Buc ...
- Louis Charles Joseph Blériot
Armand Deperdussin (July 8, 1864 in Liège, Belgium – June 11, 1924 in Paris) was a French industrialist and aviation pioneer. Having established himself as a silk-broker, he became involved in the aviation industry in 1910 after witnessing the triumphs of aviator Louis Blériot, founding Société de Production des Aéroplanes Deperdussin.
Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés, also Société Provisoire des Aéroplanes Deperdussin and Blériot-SPAD, French aircraft manufacturer (1912–1921) SPAD VII, SPAD S.XII and SPAD S.XIII, French fighter planes of World War I produced by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés. A-1 Skyraider, nicknamed Spad, an attack aircraft ...
In 1913, a consortium led by Blériot bought the Société pour les Appareils Deperdussin aircraft manufacturer and he became the president of the company in 1914. He renamed it the Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD); this company produced World War I fighter aircraft such as the SPAD S.XIII. Caricature of Louis Blériot by Sem ...
Royal Flying Corps (Royal Air Force from April 1918) United States Army Air Service. Number built. 8,472 [2] The SPAD S.XIII is a French biplane fighter aircraft of the First World War, developed by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD) from the earlier and highly successful SPAD S.VII . During early 1917, the French designer Louis ...
