Bloch MB.200

what is it?

The MB.200 was a French bomber aircraft of the 1930s designed and built by Societé des Avions Marcel Bloch. A twin-engined high-winged monoplane with a fixed undercarriage, over 200 MB.200s were built for the French Air Force, and the type was also licence built by Czechoslovakia, but it soon became obsolete, and was largely phased out by the start of the Second World War.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · 22.5 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 285 km/htop speed
• range 1,000 kmwithout refuelling
• size 7,480 kgmax take-off weight
• built 332made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 93 years ago, in 1933.
• 🏎️Top speed is 2.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 22.5 m: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 1,000 km: 6× Amsterdam to Brussels.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1933-06-26

introduced

1934

number built

332

role

bomber

origin

🇫🇷 France

makers

Bloch

engines

2× Gnome-Rhône 14Kirs / Gnome-Rhône Mistral Major

crew

4

length

16 m

wingspan

22.5 m

height

3.9 m

max take-off weight

7,480 kg

top speed

285 km/h

range

1,000 km

ceiling

8,000 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.