The Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale, was ranked at the top of the european aerospace industry in terms of turnover, manpower and the range and quality of its products. It designs and build a comprehensive line of aerospace hardware, from the light utility plane to the Airbus widebody, from light helicopters to the heavy lift twin-engine troop carrying version, from the man-portable antitank missile to the strategic ballistic missile, from weather satellites to the Ariane launcher and the Hermes spacecraft. In 1992, merged with german Daimler Benz Aerospace AG (DASA) to create Eurocopter and in 2000, becomes part of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS)





A twin-rotor six-seat model developed from the German Focke-Achgelis Fa 223. Used a welded steel-tube fuselage with cantilever outriggers extending outward and upward from each side of the fuselage to carry the twin-three blades rotors. The power plant was a Bramo Fafnir BMW 323 R2 fourteen-cylinder two-row radial air-cooled engine developing 1000 hp. The crew of two was accommodated in a fully-glazed cockpit with the four passenger cabin behind. A small power-driven crane was fitted for lifting or for rescue work


The Ariel still used the 190 hp piston engine with Turbomeca compressor but with a modified tail




The last Ariel was a three-seat variant with a 275 hp Turbomeca Artouste I combined turbine-compressor.





Developed from the Ariel models, the Djinn was one of the first successes of the French aeronautical industry with 178 units built for 10 countries.
The Engine was a Palouste gas generator to power the tip jets. The aircraft had no electrics and the engine was started by hand with a large starting handle sticking out of the starboard side. .


Jean Dabos with the SO 1220 Dijnn established international altitude record for helicopters weighing less 500 kg reacheing 4,789 meters / 15,711 feet.
Later on, in 1957, he beat the record in all categories reaching an altitude of 8,492 meters / 27,860 feet



First world's turbine helicopter to enter production
Alouette 2 Production List
