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Sud-Ouest Bretagne
🇫🇷 France ·first flew 1945· airliner and military transport
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Sud-Ouest SO-30P Bretagne: Ralf Manteufel· GFDL 1.2
- 2. SO.30P Bretagne No.40 Aeronavale Palas jets BLA 09.55: RuthAS· CC BY 3.0
- 3. SO.30P Bretagne - Saint-Nazaire (1): Duch· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. SO.30P Bretagne - Saint-Nazaire (2): Duch· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Sud-Ouest S.O.30 Bretagne was a 1940s French airliner built by Sud-Ouest.
How to recognise it: 4 piston engines with propellers · 26.9 m wingspan
base stats
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 81 years ago, in 1945.
- Top speed is 4.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 26.9 m: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Range of 2,175 km: 12× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1945-02-26
- number built
- 45
- role
- airliner and military transport
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- Sud-Ouest
- engines
- 4× Pratt & Whitney R-2800-CA18 / Turbomeca Palas
- crew
- 4
- passengers
- 43
- length
- 19 m
- wingspan
- 26.9 m
- height
- 5.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 20.3 t
- top speed
- 575 km/h
- cruise speed
- 438 km/h
- range
- 2,175 km
- ceiling
- 8,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q338344, Wikipedia: Sud-Ouest Bretagne (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.