Morane-Saulnier MS.152

The Morane-Saulnier MS.152 was a French multi-purpose aircraft built in 1928 that did not go into production. It was designed to meet a government requirement for an aircraft powerful enough to carry the equipment needed to train observation and bomber crews and to serve as a medical and liaison aircraft, but without the high running costs of the 450 to 500 horsepower engines of front-line aircraft, so it was built to accept a variety of engines of about 225 horsepower. It was a parasol-wing monoplane with a 230 horsepower Salmson 9Ab radial engine and a second cockpit that could be fitted with radio, photographic or gunnery equipment. The date of its first flight is not known, and Caudron and Hanriot also competed for the requirement, which the French Air Force awarded to the Hanriot H.43.