Private company

Wibault

French aircraft manufacturing company

The Wibault company or Société des Avions Michel Wibault was a French aircraft manufacturing company. Its workshops were located in Billancourt, in the Paris area.2 It ceased to exist in 1934.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1919Founded1
  • Industryaerospace industry, manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery, vehicle construction1
  • HeadquartersBoulogne-Billancourt1
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Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

The Wibault company or Société des Avions Michel Wibault was a French aircraft manufacturing company. Its workshops were located in Billancourt, in the Paris area.2

The story

Founded by Michel Wibault in 1919.1

The Wibault company was established in 1919 by Michel Wibault. The planes produced by Wibault in the first decade included reconnaissance, fighter and bomber aircraft, but production shifted mainly to civilian aircraft after 1930.

Some of the Wibault designs were quite successful; the Vickers Wibault was a licensed version of the Wibault 7 built by the British company Vickers in the 1920s.

In 1930 Société des Avions Michel Wibault built the Wibault-Penhoët 280, which was funded by the Penhoët (Chantiers St. Nazairre) shipyard and the following year the companies merged to form Chantiers Aéronautiques Wibault-Penhoët. That company produced the Wibault-Penhoët 280 series of trimotor airliners, twelve of which were bought by Air France. They also built transport and racing types but in 1934 were taken over by Breguet Aviation who built several Wibault designs including the Breguet 670 twin-engined airliner.

From Wikipedia’s article on Wibault, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Leadership

Who has led Wibault, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

Wibault 1 fighter 1918

Wibault 2 night bomber 1921

Wibault 3 fighter 1923

Wibault 7 fighter 1924

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Wibault 72 fighter 1928

Wibault 73 fighter 1927

Wibault 74 fighter 1930

Wibault 8 Simoun fighter

Wibault 9 fighter 1926

Wibault 10 twin boom project

Wibault 10/II re-allocated for two-seat parasol wing reconnaissance aircraft, built for A.2 1923 competition

Wibault 12 Sirocco fighter

Wibault 121 Sirocco reconnaissance

Wibault 122 fighter

Wibault 123 reconnaissance

Wibault 124 surveillance 1929

Wibault 125 reconnaissance 1930

Wibault 13 Trombe I single seat lightweight fighter to C.1 1926 Jockey fighter contest

Wibault 130 Trombe I fighter

Wibault 170 Tornade fighter 1928

Wibault 210 fighter 1929

Wibault 220 reconnaissance 1930

Wibault 240 transport seaplane 1933

Wibault 260 long range reconnaissance 1930

Wibault 280T civil airliner 1930

Wibault 281T

Wibault 282T

Wibault 283T

Wibault 313

Wibault 360T5 civil airliner 1931

Wibault 361

Wibault 362

Wibault 363

Wibault 364

Wibault 365

Wibault 366

Wibault 367

Wibault 368

Breguet-Wibault 670 civil airliner 1935

Significant projects

Wibault 4 heavy bomber project (no data)

Wibault 5 single-seat parasol-wing fighter project, submitted to C.1 1923

Wibault 6 two-seat parasol-wing fighter derivative of Wibault 5

Wibault 11 single-seat fighter project powered by one 500 hp engine, for C.1 1923

Wibault 14 two-seat parasol wing tourist aircraft project

Wibault 14H a floatplane version of Wibault 14

Wibault 15 single-seat fighter project to C.1 1926 contest

Wibault 160 Trombe II a more powerful version of Wibault 130 Trombe I, also for C.1 1926

Wibault 230 three-engined transport aircraft project (no data)

Wibault 270 single-seat lightweight fighter project for C.1 1928

Wibault 330 transport aircraft (no more details)

Wibault 340 two-seat low-wing tourist aircraft project

From Wikipedia’s article on Wibault, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

  1. 1934Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1919Founded Founded1

Sources

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