Dassault MD.415 Communauté

The Dassault MD.415 Communauté was a French twin-engined light turboprop transport of the late 1950s, designed as a possible replacement for the Dassault MD 315 Flamant in its trainer, command transport and ambulance roles. It was a cantilever low-wing monoplane with retractable tricycle landing gear, two crew and up to ten passengers, powered by two wing-mounted Turbomeca Bastan turboprops. Its single prototype first flew on 10 May 1959. Dassault also built a military version, the MD.410 Spirale, with the windows removed, transparent nose panels and underwing hardpoints for close support, reconnaissance or transport. Neither version won a production order, and proposed variants including the Communauté A1 and A2 and a high-wing Spirale III were not built.