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Blériot

French aircraft manufacturer

Blériot Aéronautique (English:, French: [bleʁjo]) was a French aircraft manufacturer founded by Louis Blériot. It also made a few motorcycles between 1921 and 1922 and cyclecars during the 1920s.² It is headquartered in France.¹ It ceased to exist in 1936.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1909Founded¹

Industryaerospace engineering, aircraft industry, automotive industry¹
HeadquartersFrance¹
Founded inBuc¹
Legal formOrganisme de placement collectif en valeurs mobilières sans personnalité morale³
Kind of organizationFund¹
LEI96950052KI32D26RKN11³
StatusActive³
LEI statusIssued and current³
Registered address128 BOULEVARD RASPAIL, 75006 Paris, France³
Registered withAutorité des marchés financiers, 73932³

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BLeriot in Flight — Photo: Loening, Grover C. "Military aeroplanes, an explanatory consideration of their characteristics, performances, construction, maintenance and operation, for the use of aviators", 1917, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons⁵

Corporate structure

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Blériot Paris, France
- Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés Subsidiary

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The story

Founded by Louis Blériot in 1909, in Buc.¹

Background

Louis Blériot was an engineer who had developed the first practical headlamp for cars and had established a successful business marketing them. In 1901 he had built a small unmanned ornithopter, but his serious involvement with aviation began in April 1905 when he witnessed Gabriel Voisin's first experiments with a floatplane glider towed behind a motorboat on the river Seine. A brief partnership with Voisin followed, but after the failure of the Blériot III and its modified version, the Blériot IV, the partnership was dissolved and Blériot set up his own company, "Recherches Aéronautique Louis Blériot" (Louis Blériot Aeronautical Research) at Courbevoie in March 1909.

1914–18

During the First World War Blériot Aéronautique was largely concerned with manufacturing aircraft designed by others. The only aircraft produced under the Blériot name was a series of prototype multi-engined heavy bombers, none of which entered service.

From Wikipedia’s article on Blériot Aéronautique, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

Leadership

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FounderLouis Blériot¹

Products and brands

Blériot V

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Aircraft design and manufacturing

The publicity gained by this achievement brought the company orders for large numbers of the Type XI, and several hundred were eventually made. This commercial success enabled the research side of the business to expand considerably, and in the years before the First World War a startlingly heterogeneous collection of aircraft were produced, although none came close to being as successful as the Type XI.

Aircraft

Blériot aircraft before the First World War

Bleriot I (1901) Unmanned ornithopter powered by a carbonic acid engine.

Blériot II (1905) Biplane floatplane glider built for Blériot by Gabriel Voisin. Crashed on first attempt at flight and abandoned.

Blériot III (1906) Tandem-wing biplane powered by 24 hp (18 kW) Antoinette engine. Not successful.

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Blériot IV (1906) Modification of Type III, powered by two Antoinette engines. Not successful.

Blériot V (1907) Single-seat, single-engine monoplane of canard configuration.

Blériot VI (1907) Single-seat, single-engine aircraft of tandem wing configuration.

Blériot VII (1907)

Blériot VIII (1908) World's first aircraft design to possess the direct ancestor of today's aircraft flight control system for the pilot (1908)

Blériot IX (1908) Tractor configuration monoplane. Never flown. Preserved in the collection of the Musée de l'Air in Paris.

Blériot X (1908) canard configuration biplane, never flown.

Blériot XI (1909) Single-seat, single-engine tractor configuration monoplane. The type in which the first flight across the English Channel was made.

Blériot XII (1909) Single-seat, single-engine high-wing monoplane.

Blériot XIII (1910) Five-seat pusher configuration biplane.

Blériot XIV (1910) Two-seat monoplane.

Blériot XX (1910) Single seat monoplane with elongated triangular tailplane.

Blériot XXI (1911) Two-seat military monoplane with elongated triangular tailplane. Exhibited at the 1911 Paris Aero Salon. One example was flown the 1912 British Military Aeroplane Competition.

Blériot XXIII (1911) Racing monoplane with narrow-chord wings powered by a 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome. Flown by Alfred Leblanc in the 1911 Gordon Bennett Trophy competition, coming second.

Blériot XXIV (1911) The Bleriot Limousine, similar to the Type XIII but with an enclosed passenger cabin. Exhibited at the 1911 Paris Aero Salon.

Blériot XXV (1911) Single-seater pusher canard monoplane.

Blériot XXVI (1911) Single-seater pusher canard triplane. One built, probably not flown.

Blériot XXVII (1911) Single-seat racing monoplane powered by a 50 hp (37 kW) Gnome. One built, exhibited at the 1911 Paris Aero Salon. Preserved and on display at the Royal Air Force Museum London.

Blériot XXVIII Populaire (1911) A version of the Type XI with a modified engine cowling, powered by a 35 hp (26 kW) Anzani. Exhibited at the 1911 Paris Aero Salon

Blériot XXIX (1912) Unbuilt pusher two-seat military observation monoplane.

Blériot XXIX (1912) Unbuilt sports monoplane.

Blériot XXXIII Canard Bleu (1912) Two-seat canard monoplane powered by a 70 hp (52 kW) Gnome.

Blériot XXXVI Torpille (1912) Two-seat military monoplane, exhibited at the 1912 Paris Aero Salon. Circular section fuselage with a streamlined cowling enclosing the engine, rudder in two parts above and below the fuselage, and an undercarriage consisting of a pair of wheels on a cross-axle mounted on V-struts supplemented by a single central skid projecting forward.

Blériot XXXVII (1913) Development of the Type XXV. Crashed at Buc on 25 November 1913, killing the pilot, Edmond Perreyon

Blériot aircraft during the First World War

Blériot 67 Four-engined bomber, single prototype only.

Blériot 73 Four-engined bomber, single prototype only.

Blériot 74 Four-engined bomber, single prototype only.

Blériot aircraft after the First World War

Blériot 75 Aerobus (1919) Four-engine biplane airliner, developed from the Type 74

Blériot 102 (1922) Single-seat, single-engine ultralight touring aircraft.

Blériot 115 (1923) Four-engine biplane airliner.

Blériot 105 (1924) Single-engine cabin biplane, derived from the SPAD S.45.

Blériot 106 (1924) Single-engine cabin monoplane.

Blériot 117 (1924) Twin-engine bomber.

Blériot 135 (1924) Type 115 development with radial engines.

Blériot 118 (1925) Twin-engine amphibian flying-boat fighter aircraft.

Blériot 155 (1925) Four-engine biplane airliner, developed from the Type 115 and 135.

Blériot 165 (1926) Four-engine biplane airliner.

Blériot 175 (1928) Re-engined version of Type 165 with night-flying equipment; later converted back to Type 165 standard.

Blériot 111 (1929–1934) Four-seat executive transport aircraft.

Blériot 127 (1929) Twin-engine bomber, developed from the Type 117.

Blériot 195 (1929) Four-engine monoplane mail-carrier in both land and floatplane configurations.

Blériot 110 (1930) Single-seat, single-engine high-wing long-distance monoplane.

Blériot 137 (1930) Prototype light bomber/reconnaissance aircraft, developed from the Type 127.

Blériot 125 (1931) Twin-engine airliner carrying passengers in twin fuselages.

Blériot 290 (1931) Single-engine light amphibian flying boat.

Blériot 5190 (1933) Four-engine parasol-wing monoplane flying boat, intended as a transatlantic mail carrier.

Blériot-SPAD aircraft

Blériot-SPAD S.20 (1918) Two-seat fighter.

Blériot-SPAD S.27 (1918) Two-passenger airliner.

Blériot-SPAD S.29 (1920) Two-seat sport aircraft.

Blériot-SPAD S.30 (1920) Single-seat sport aircraft.

Blériot-SPAD S.33 (1920) Five-passenger airliner.

Blériot-SPAD S.34 (1920) Two-seat trainer.

Blériot-SPAD S.41 (1922) One-seat fighter.

Blériot-SPAD S.46 (1921) Five-passenger airliner.

Blériot-SPAD S.51 (1924) Single-seat biplane fighter.

Blériot-SPAD S.56 (1923) Six-passenger airliner.

Blériot-SPAD S.61 (1923) Single-seat biplane fighter.

Blériot-SPAD S.66 (1925) Five-passenger airliner.

Blériot-SPAD S.81 (1923) Single-seat biplane fighter.

Blériot-SPAD S.510 (1933) Single-seat biplane fighter.