Blériot-SPAD S.27

The Blériot-SPAD S.27 was a small French airliner developed soon after the First World War. Blériot produced it as a way to find new markets for its wartime products in the postwar market, adapting the design of the S.20 fighter into a small airliner. A small cabin within the fuselage gave accommodation for two passengers, but in other respects the S.27 strongly resembled its predecessor. Three were operated by the airline CMA on its Paris to London route, a total that rose to ten by the time that company merged into Air Union. The specification lists a crew of one, a length of 7.3 m, a wingspan of 9.72 m, an empty weight of 850 kg and a maximum speed of 230 km/h from one 220 kW Hispano-Suiza 8Fa water-cooled V8 engine.