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2 unusual facts about Potez-CAMS 141


Potez-CAMS 141

It was armed with a dorsal turret carrying two 7.5 mm Darne machine guns, with a further two machine guns in lateral "cheek" barbettes and two in waist positions.

Two 7.5 mm Darne machine guns in dorsal turret, two machine guns in lateral "cheek" barbettes and two machine guns in waist positions


Dabos JD.24P D'Artagnan

The projected production version was to have a non-retractable faired undercarriage, variable-pitch airscrews in place of the prototype's fixed-pitch units, and 115 h.p. Potez engines.

Pavel Argeyev

Reluctant to return to the USSR, he continued flying as a test pilot and was killed on October 20, 1922 near Trutnov, Czechoslovakia when his Potez aircraft crashed in the Sudetes mountains.

Potez 15

Already in 1923, Poland bought a licence for the Potez 15 and started to manufacture them in Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów (PWS, 35 built in 1925) and Plage i Laśkiewicz aircraft works (100 built in 1925-1926).

Potez 630

On 20 May 1940, three Potez 633s took part in a strafing mission against German troops near Arras.

Reinhard Seiler

He scored his first victory of the war on 10 January 1940, shooting down a French reconnaissance Potez southwest of Freiburg.


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