- Design and development
- Operators
- Variants
- Specifications (500 Colmar)
- References
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The Breguet 500 Colmar was a 1940s French airliner designed by Breguet Aviation. Design and developmentOriginally started under the designation 483T, the Colmar was designed as a twin-engined airliner or VIP and staff transport, based on the earlier four-engined Breguet 482 bomber. Following the liberation of France, the surviving prototype, powered by two Gnome-Rhône 14R-04 / Gnome-Rhône 14R-05 radial engines, first flew on 27 February 1945. Operators- {{FRA}}
Variants- 500 Colmar
Twin-engined airliner prototype, one built and one destroyed before completion. - 510 Colmar
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References{{commons category|Breguet aircraft}}- Notes
1. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=bCEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA88&dq=popular+science+July+1946&hl=en&ei=hc3oTO6dCYvonQfQu5iaDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=10&ved=0CE4Q6wEwCTgU#v=onepage&q&f=true "French Substratosphere Transport Was Hidden From Nazis", November 1948, Popular Science] US magazine editors had wrongly named aircraft photo Bellatrix - rare photo in article
- Bibliography
{{refbegin}}- {{cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985)|publisher= Orbis Publishing|location= |issn=|pages=}}
- {{cite book |last=Chillon |first=J |authorlink= |author2=J-P Dubois and J.Wegg|title=French Postwar Transport Aircraft|year= 1980|publisher= Air-Britain (Historian) Limited|location= Tonbridge, England|isbn=0-85130-078-2}}
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