Blériot-SPAD S.46

The Blériot-SPAD S.46 was a small French airliner of the 1920s, developed from the Blériot-SPAD S.33. Like its predecessor it was a conventional biplane that seated four passengers in an enclosed cabin while the pilot, and occasionally a fifth passenger, rode in an open cockpit. It had a redesigned wing of longer span and a far more powerful engine, a 276 kW Lorraine-Dietrich 12Da V-12. Franco-Roumaine bought 38 of the 40 examples produced for its continental European routes. In 1925 the surviving 34 were recalled to Blériot and remanufactured as the S.66, and single aircraft with more powerful engines became the S.86, S.116 and S.126. It had an empty weight of 1,417 kg and a maximum speed of 214 km/h.