SNCAC NC.4-10
type of aircraft
The SNCAC NC.4-10 was a twin-engine floatplane torpedo bomber built in France in the late 1930s. It was one of several prototypes competing for a Navy specification but no contracts were awarded after the military lost interest in the type.
Design and development
The Farman F.410 was designed in 1934, before the part-nationalisation of the French aircraft industry in 1936-7 brought Farman and Hanriot together as the Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Centre (SNCAC). The design anticipated the government specification MT/CPT-9 for a "combat scout seaplane" for the Forces Aériennes de Mer, which was circulated amongst manufacturers in May 1935. Farman revised the F.410 to accommodate this specification and four other French manufacturers also built prototypes to it. There were further changes to MT/CPT-9 in March 1937. Post-nationalisation, the F.410 was renamed the SNCAC NC.4-10.
The twin engine NC.4-10 was an all-metal aircraft. It had low-set wings with a rectangular centre section, tapering outboard of the engines. The fuselage was flat sided and tapered aft to a high set tailplane.
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