Morane-Saulnier MS.250

The Morane-Saulnier MS.250 was a crew-trainer aircraft built by Morane-Saulnier in the late 1920s. It was a parasol-wing monoplane with swept-back wings, similar to the MS.230 but with a new tail. The cockpits had windscreens, and the rear cockpit had a gun ring, with provision for a machine gun in a lobster-back turret; the pilot-instructor occupied the front cockpit and the trainee observer the rear. The prototype was powered by a 230 horsepower Salmson 9Ab radial engine and was the only MS.250 built, while a second aircraft with a 240 horsepower Lorraine 7Mc radial engine was designated MS.251. The published figures give a maximum speed of 189 kilometres per hour and a service ceiling of 5,000 metres.