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Sud Aviation SE 313B Alouette II F-GBOB (formerly Société Nationale des Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Est SE 3130 c/n 1845 built in 1963) taking off from Moncucco airfield (Vische) during the Barone Rosso Fly-In on July 6, 2003. After test flights with registration F-WIEK, it was exported to Germany with registration D-HOFI and in 2003, while operating in Italy, it took on the French registration F-GBOB. In 2026, after 62 years of operation, according to the French Air Register, F-GBOB still resides somewhere in the Turin area. In 1936, the "Front Populaire" then governing France began taking various measures regarding aviation. Among these was the reorganization of the numerous French aviation companies, grouping them according to their geographical location. Specifically, on February 1, 1937, the Société Nationale des Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Est (SNCASE) was created, comprising the companies Potez of Berre, Lioré et Olivier of Argenteuil and Marignane, Cantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine (CAMS) of Vitrolles, Cantiers Aéronavals Étienne Romano of Cannes, and Société Provençale de Constructions Aérnautiques (SPCA) of Marseille. It was in this very factory that the first French helicopter, designated SE.3000 (F-WFDR), was built in 1948, nothing other than a copy of a futuristic Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drachen twin-rotor aircraft that had been recovered after the end of World War II. In 1957 SNCASE was renamed Sud Aviation, in 1970 Aérospatiale, in 1992 Eurocopter (with the German MBB) and, since January 17, 2014, Airbus Helicopters. (Aeromedia)
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