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Loire-Nieuport LN.401
Two escadrilles of the Aéronautique Navale, designated as AB2 and AB4, converted to the LN.401/411 between late 1939 and early 1940.













LN.401
- Production single-seat carrier-based dive bomber. 15 built.
LN.411
- Land-based 401, with naval equipment removed; 45 built.

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These are new to me. I must admit that other that the Dewoitine D.520 and the Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 I am woefully unfamiliar with French WWII aircraft. It makes me wonder if the French Aviation Industry had retained the ability to develop aircraft what would have been flying in 1945.

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Looks like they were going for that same landing-gear-as-dive-brake idea as the Swedes did on their Saab 17:

(Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Could be. Don't know much about this aircraft yet.

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Great airplane, it did many things well.