SCAN 20
# SCAN 20

The SCAN 20 was a 1940s French flying-boat training monoplane designed and built by Société de Constructions Aéro-Navales de Port-Neuf (SCAN). The prototype was built in secret in 1941. It was hidden until the liberation of France and first flown in 1945.

## Design and development

The SCAN 20 was designed to meet a French Air Ministry requirement for a small flying-boat trainer. The SCAN 20 was a high-wing cantilever monoplane flying-boat with strut-mounted floats under each wing. It had twin fin with rudders on a raised tailplane and an enclosed cockpit with side-by-side seating for two. Built in secret during 1941 it was not flown until after the liberation of France in October 1945. The prototype had a single 425 hp (317 kW) Béarn 6D inline engine strut-mounted above the wing. An order for 30 aircraft with a more powerful engine was placed for the French Navy but only 23 were delivered.

## Operators

### France

* French Navy

## Specifications

Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1947

General characteristics

* Crew: 2
* Capacity: 2 pax
* Length: 11.79 m (38 ft 8 in)
* Wingspan: 15 m (49 ft 3 in)
* Height: 3.62 m (11 ft 11 in)
* Wing area: 32 $m^2$ (340 sq ft)
* Max takeoff weight: 2,500 kg (5,512 lb)
* Powerplant: 1 × Béarn 6D 6-cyl in-line air-cooled piston engine, 242 kW (325 hp) :::or

       1x Potez 8D V-8
          or
       1x Salmson 8 As.00 V-8
* Propellers: 3-bladed Ratier variable-pitch pusher propeller

Performance

* Maximum speed: 230 km/h (140 mph, 120 kn) at 2,000 m (6,600 ft)
* Cruise speed: 200 km/h (120 mph, 110 kn) *Alighting speed: 80 km/h (50 mph; 43 kn)}
* Range: 1,000 km (620 mi, 540 nmi)
* Service ceiling: 5,000 m (16,000 ft)
* Wing loading: 78.1 $kg/m^2$ (16.0 lb/sq ft)
