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Sud-Ouest Triton
🇫🇷 France ·first flew 1946· experimental trainer aircraft
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. So6000-triton-bourget: Michel Teiten http://www.mablehome.com· CC BY 2.5
- 2. SO.6000 Triton Le Bourget FRA 001: ignis· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Triton Musee du BOurget P1020096: Pline· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Sud-Ouest SO.6000 Triton is an early experimental French jet aircraft. It has the distinction of being the first indigenously-designed jet-powered aircraft to be flown by the nation, having been designed and manufactured during the 1940s by the French aircraft construction consortium SNCASO. Work on the French jet aircraft initiative had begun in secret during the Second World War, and harnessed research retrieved from Nazi Germany. Almost immediately after the end of the conflict, the French government issued a requirement for a batch of five prototype jet aircraft to be developed by French industry.
How to recognise it: 1 jet engine · 10 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 80 years ago, in 1946.
- Top speed is 7.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.4× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1946-11-11
- number built
- 5
- role
- experimental trainer aircraft
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- engines
- 1× Hispano-Suiza Nene 101
- crew
- 2
- length
- 10.4 m
- wingspan
- 10 m
- max take-off weight
- 4,560 kg
- top speed
- 955 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 12,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2067432, Wikipedia: Sud-Ouest Triton (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.