Nord 2200 prototype scrapped

The Nord 2200 prototype in 1950 (Photo US Navy).

The Nord 2200 prototype in 1950 (Photo US Navy).

While not exactly recent the most news, the sole Nord 2200 prototype, a post-war French naval jet fighter that first flew in 1949, was destroyed last year, as reported by the Ailes Historiques du Rhin and List’In MAE website.

For decades, the prototype was kept in the reserves of the Muse de l’Air et de l’Espace in Le Bourget near Paris until the 1980s. It was then transferred to the Ailes Anciennes d’Armorique, a French association that restored many aircraft and engines over the years.

When the association shut down last year, it was the  Espace Aéro Lyon-Corbas who recuperated what was left of the Nord 2200 prototype, which had been stored outdoors for years.

Funding the restoration of such an aircraft type, which never went beyond the testing stage, would have been complicated indeed, but one can only regret that such a unique airframe was ultimately sold as scrap by the EALC in 2014.

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2 comments

  1. what a bunch of idiots! who cares if it was only a prototype it is still part of history and i think you could find a lot of people that would have stored it for a small fee. what a waste!

  2. The reason it was scrapped was not because it was a prototype, but because the trip from french Brittany to Lyon made the inside frame of the aircraft sag. Unfortunatly this aircraft which had been stored outside for years previously was not able to be restored. That is why EALC chose (with sadness) to scrap it while they thought at the beginning that they could save this aircraft.

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