Breguet

Early in the war, Société des Avions Louis Breguet of Villacoublay, Paris, produced several pushers, but it was not until the advent of the Breguet 14 that the company found a true hit. That plane became one of the most respected two-seaters of the entire war.

Louis Breguet's designs were never elegant, but they were robust thanks to their all-metal airframe construction, a design for which Breguet became known as a pioneer. Early planes were mostly pushers (at the insistence of the French General Staff, who wanted the observer to have an uninterrupted field of view). But with the Breguet 14 he finally got to build a tractor which combined robust construction and a powerful twelve-cylinder engine.

Production aircraft from the Great War or shortly thereafter include:


 * Breguet U2
 * Breguet-Michelin BLM (BM2)
 * Breguet-Michelin BUM (BM10)
 * Breguet-Michelin 4
 * Breguet BUC (Breguet 7)
 * Breguet BLC (Breguet 1)
 * Breguet BC (Breguet 8)
 * Breguet 5
 * Breguet 6
 * Breguet 9
 * Breguet 12
 * Breguet 13
 * Breguet 14
 * Breguet 16
 * Breguet 17