By akademiotoelektronik, 29/03/2023

GPP 2021: Morane-Saulnier MS-760B Paris II – aeroVFR Facebook Flux RSS Twitter

The first business jet in the world produced by Morane-Saulnier in Tarbes.

This application file was submitted by Francisco Agullo, director of the company Aéro Passion. The objective sought was to preserve this MS-760 Paris in its “business jet” version since it was the first “light jet” in aeronautical history. This copy is part of a batch of three aircraft acquired by the company JPP sarl located at Dole-Jura airport. Aéro Passion will operate the aircraft, with possible training on this twinjet.

Go back. It was in January 1953 that Morane-Saulnier took off the prototype of his MS-755 Fleuret in Melun-Villaroche. This two-seater jet trainer, two-seater side by side, meets State specifications but it is the CM-170 Fouga Magister that wins the contract, becoming the training aircraft of the French army. 'Air that prefers the tandem arrangement. These planes benefit from new small reactors, the Marboré developed by Turboméca.

Morane-Saulnier, based on the technical study of Foil, moves to Foil II renamed MS-760 Paris. The capability has been changed from two-seater to four-seater, making the aircraft a fast liaison aircraft. The MS-755 n°2 thus became the first 760 Paris with a first flight in July 1954 from Villacoublay.

Production began at Tarbes airport because the Air Force placed an order in 1955 for 26 units. The following year, the Navy did the same with 14 aircraft, followed by the Flight Test Center (CEV) with 9 copies and the SFACT (4 units). The Argentine Air Force places an order for 48 MS-760s, 36 of which will be assembled on site and used in armed missions. Brazil will follow with 30 devices.

In 1960, an evolution of the aircraft took shape under the designation Paris II with more powerful Marboré VI in place of the Marboré II, but without follow-up like the Paris III with an elongated fuselage for 6 seats, of which only a prototype would see the day.

Beechcraft will also be interested in Paris but the project will not lead to more because the US Navy will not place an order while the US Air Force uses for the training of its pilots the Cessna T-37, a two-seater side by side coast propelled by two Marboré like the Foil! In France, the MS-760 will give way to its successor at Daher, the TBM, less greedy and with similar performance.

In the end, 157 MS-760 Paris were produced by Morane-Saulnier, which later became Socata, then Daher. In 2009, the certificate of airworthiness will be acquired by an American company, recovering cells in Argentina and Brazil to target the "very light jet" market without breaking through... Fifteen Paris are in the hands of private users but there would not remain today today only five models in flying condition, including that of Armor Aéro Passion in Morlaix.

Thus, the three MS-760 purchased by JPP sarl will be based in Dole. Aéro Passion, specialized in the field of business aviation, aims to showcase its Paris through multiple activities, including participation in filming, events and meetings.

The device presented, serial number 1068, was used initially in Italy and then in the United States (photod above) then changed hands many times, with evolving decorations. Registered N760X in its black-gold livery, it belonged to actor John Travolta and was piloted by the latter in the film "Hello Mom, Here Baby" (1989). It also passed through the Commemorative Air Force collection.

Acquired in December 2019 after a partial restoration, the plane was ferried by air from Colorado Springs to Dole. A reactor problem required dismantling in Lille before being transported by road to the Jura to undergo, under the direction of Jean-Pierre Parizon, a complete overhaul of all the systems and the two reactors. The avionics have been brought into compliance for instrument flight (IFR) and at high altitude (FL250).♦♦♦

Photos © Aero Passionhttps://www.passion.aero

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