Landing on 27L

The Louis Bréguet company hired F-BASQ back from Air France for an unsuccessful American sales tour in 1958. The Deux-Ponts name was not official, yet used by the manufacturer. Bogotá's old Techo airport closed in 1959. On the right is a C-54 of Avianca, HK-180.

Apparently the first Deux-Ponts to visit Schiphol. At the nosewheel the suitability of the towbar seems to be discussed. The aircraft carried a group of 107 French housepainters, invited by a Dutch paint factory. Photo by: Daan Noske / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Serial 503 painted on nose and 'Br 765 No. 3' carried on tail. Back then even the fuel bowsers looked classy!

WFU in 1971, broken up in 1981 at Tarbes-Laloubère.

Former Air France aircraft is being used as a restaurant. Fake registration, is ex FAF 306/82-PP and F-BASS before that.

Unexpected visitor to RAF Sharjah. Diverted in with 'cracked' exhaust manifold on one engine (landed on three). After repairs took off the next day at 0600 hrs, en route to Tahiti. From GAM (Groupe Aérien Mixte) 82. F-RBPS was its 'call sign.'

Ex Air France F-BASS, this Deux-Ponts (= double decker) was transferred to the Armée de l'Air in June 1964 as 306/82-PP. Withdrawn from use in Aug 1967 and stored at Le Bourget. Moved to Fontenay-Trésigny in 1968, and converted into a bar/restaurant in 1984. The registration F-BACC is fake, and shows merely the initials of the owner, Aéro-Club de Chaubuisson.

Twenty "Deux-Ponts" were built during the 50's; Only three frames are now preserved. This one served within French Air Force and is currently restored in Toulouse museum.

The last of three BR-761S transport aircraft supplied to the French AF. Fitted with an earlier central fin shape compared to the BR-763. Ex F-WASM.

One the three Breguet "Deux Ponts" currently existing. Under restoration within "Les Ailes anciennes de Toulouse". Was shortly operated by the French air force during the sixties and coded 64-PH.

This Deux-Ponts (double decker) was delivered to Air France in Jul 1953 as F-BASS, and transferred to the Armée de l'Air in June 1964 as 306/82-PP. Withdrawn from use in Aug 1967 and stored at Le Bourget. In 1968 the aircraft was acquired by Jean-Claude Savigny (on behalf of the Aéro-club Etienne-Boileau), dismantled at Le Bourget and trucked to Fontenay-Trésigny. In 1984 the aeroclub changed its name to Aéro-club de Chaubuisson, and in that same year they converted their Deux-Ponts into a bar/restaurant. The fictitious registration F-BACC was then chosen to show the initials of the aeroclub's new name.

Preserved at Aero Club d'Evreux.

Breguet Provence Deux-Ponts, double decker, now with fake mark F-BACC in use as a restaurant just southeast of Paris, France. It is ex Air France F-BASS.

Turned into a restaurant at LFPQ airfield, off the N4 road, east of Paris. The registration is fake.

My prediction that this 'Deux-Ponts' (Double-Decker) would soon be starring as the 'Father of the A380' in the new Aeroscopia museum did not come true, and she remained in the outside Ailes Anciennes collection nearby.

This wonderful relic was unfortunately broken up for scrap in July 1979.