4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SCAN 20 - hydravion: Extrait de la revue "Décollage : le magazine de l'aviation mondiale" du 06 septembre 1946· Public domain
- 2. SCAN 20 - hydravion 03: Extrait de la revue "Décollage : le magazine de l'aviation mondiale" du 06 septembre 1946· Public domain
- 3. SCAN 20 - hydravion 04: Extrait de la revue "Décollage : le magazine de l'aviation mondiale" du 06 septembre 1946· Public domain
- 4. SCAN 20b - hydravion: Extrait de la revue "Décollage : le magazine de l'aviation mondiale" du 06 septembre 1946· Public domain
what is it?
The SCAN 20 was a 1940s French flying-boat training monoplane designed and built by Société de Constructions Aéro-Navales de Port-Neuf (SCAN). The prototype was built in secret in 1941. It was hidden until the liberation of France and first flown in 1945.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · shoulder wing · 15 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 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 15 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1945-10-06
- introduced
- 1951
- number built
- 24
- role
- flying-boat trainer
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- Société de Construction Aéronavale
- engines
- 1× Béarn 6D / Potez 8D
- crew
- 2
- passengers
- 2
- length
- 11.8 m
- wingspan
- 15 m
- height
- 3.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,500 kg
- top speed
- 230 km/h
- cruise speed
- 200 km/h
- range
- —
- wings
- shoulder wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2204493, Wikipedia: SCAN 20 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.