Blériot 195

The Blériot 195 was a French monoplane mail-carrier designed and built by Blériot Aéronautique: a large low-wing cantilever monoplane meant for mail flights across the North Atlantic, powered by four Hispano-Suiza 6Mb inline piston engines mounted in tandem pairs above the wing. Designated the 195/2 landplane, it first flew on 9 March 1929, was tested with twin floats as the 195/3, was re-engined with Gnome-Rhône Titan engines as the 195/4 and was put forward for a seaplane mail service between Marseilles and Algiers, though none of the designs submitted was accepted. In April 1931 it was converted back to a landplane and tested by Air Union as a cargo aircraft, but it did not gain a certificate of airworthiness for that work and was withdrawn. Only the one aircraft was built.