The Nord Noratlas was a twin-engine, twin-boom military transport developed by Nord Aviation from the late 1940s to replace the Junkers Ju 52 and Douglas C-47 in French service. Its pod-like fuselage had rear clamshell doors close to the ground for easy loading and carried up to 40 passengers or about 6.8 tonnes of freight. The first Nord 2500 prototype flew on 10 September 1949 with Gnome-Rhône engines, and the revised Nord 2501 with SNECMA-built Bristol Hercules engines entered Armée de l'Air service on 6 December 1953. About 425 were built until 1961 for France, West Germany, where Flugzeugbau Nord built most of the German aircraft under contract, Israel, Greece, Portugal and a few civil operators. French Noratlases dropped paratroopers near Port Said in the 1956 Suez Crisis, and the multinational Transall C-160 later replaced the type.
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On 10 September 1949, the first prototype conducted its maiden flight.
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