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1200 Norecrin
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Nord 1203 Norecrin
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Role
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Cabin monoplane
Type of aircraft
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Manufacturer
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Nord Aviation
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First flight
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15 December 1945
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Number built
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378
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The
Nord 1200 Norecrin
is a French two or three-seat (later four-seat) cabin monoplane designed and built by
Nord Aviation
.
Development
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The Norecrin was developed to meet a French ministry of transport sponsored design competition. The Norecrin is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable tricycle landing gear and the prototype (
Nord 1200
) was designed to receive a nose-mounted 75 kW (100 hp)
Mathis G4-R
piston engine but flew only with a 100 kW (140 hp)
Renault 4Pei
(first flight on 15 December 1945 with Georges Detre as test pilot). The production version had three-seats and was designated the
Nord 1201 Norecrin I
. A number of variants were produced with different engines fitted. Later variants had four-seats and the
Nord 1203 Norecrin V
was a two-seat military variant with machine-guns and rockets. It was a successful design and 378 aircraft were built.
Variants
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- 1200 Norecrin
- Prototype with a 100 kW (140 hp)
Renault 4Pei
engine.
- 1201 Norecrin I
- Three-seat production variant with a 100 kW (140 hp)
Renault 4P-01
engine (22 built)
- 1202 Norecrin
- Prototype four-seat variant with a 120 kW (160 hp)
Potez 4D-01
engine
Nord 1203 Norecrin II at Sherburn-in-Elmet airfield, Yorkshire, in July 1951
- 1203 Norecrin II
- Production variant with 101 kW (135 hp)
Regnier 4L
-00 engine.
- 1203 Norecrin III
- Norecrin II with modified landing gear.
- 1203 Norecrin IV
- Powered by a 130 kW (170 hp)
Regnier 4L
-02 engine.
- 1203 Norecrin V
- Armed military variant.
- 1203 Norecrin VI
- 1955 production variant with a 120 kW (160 hp)
Regnier 4L
-14 engine.
- 1203 Norecrin M1
- 1955 prototype with a 130 kW (180 hp)
Lycoming O-360
engine, derated to 120 kW (160 hp) .
- 1204 Norecrin
- Powered by a 93 kW (125 hp)
Continental C125
flat-four engine.
- 1204/II Norecrin
- Powered by a 108 kW (145 hp)
Continental C145-2
flat-four engine.
Operators
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Brazil
- OMTA
- One aircraft only.
Military operators
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Argentina
France
Israel
Switzerland
Specifications (1203 Norecrin II)
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Nord 1200 2-view drawing from L'Aerophile March 1946
Data from
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985)
. Orbis Publishing. p. 2616.
General characteristics
- Crew:
one
- Capacity:
three passengers
- Length:
7.21 m (23 ft 8 in)
- Wingspan:
10.22 m (33 ft 6.25 in)
- Height:
2.90 m (9 ft 6 in)
- Wing area:
13 m
2
(139.93 sq ft)
- Empty weight:
652 kg (1,437 lb)
- Gross weight:
1,050 kg (2,315 lb)
- Powerplant:
1 ×
Regnier 4L
-00 air-cooled inverted inline piston-engine , 101 kW (135 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed:
280 km/h (174 mph, 151 kn)
- Range:
900 km (559 mi, 486 nmi)
- Service ceiling:
5,000 m (16,405 ft)
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Nord 1200
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- Aloni, Shlomo (September 2005). "Ils furent les deux premiers avions francais de l'armee israelienne: Les deux "Norecrin d'Israel".
Le Fana de l'Aviation
(in French). No. 430. pp. 52?55.
- Cuny, Jean (1989).
Les avions de combat francais, 2: Chasse lourde, bombardement, assaut, exploration
[
French Combat Aircraft 2: Heavy Fighters, Bombers, Attack, Reconnaissance
]. Docavia (in French). Vol. 30. Ed. Lariviere.
OCLC
36836833
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- Salatin, Claude (March 2002). "Courrier des Lecteurs" [Readers' Letters].
Avions: Toute l'Aeronautique et son histoire
(in French) (108): 2.
ISSN
1243-8650
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- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989).
Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation
. London: Studio Editions.
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985)
. Orbis Publishing. p. 2616.
- Le Trait d'Union (The Norecrin serie by Claude Salaun issue 109 to 121 1986-1988)
. French branch of Air Britain.
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