Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established in Toulouse by Émile Dewoitine in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters, which were largely ignored by the French Air Force but purchased in large quantities abroad and licence-built in Italy, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia. The company was liquidated in January 1927, with the only remaining active programme (the D.27) being transferred to EKW in Switzerland.

The company was then re-established in Paris in March of the following year as Société Aéronautique Française (Avions Dewoitine) or SAF. After briefly continuing D.27 production, the reconstituted firm produced a range of fighters, the D.500 family, that became a mainstay of the French Air Force during the 1930s.

It also developed important civilian airliners, such as the D.333 and its derivative the D.338, designed for pioneering routes to French Indochina (now Vietnam), and eventually Hong Kong.

The firm was nationalised in March 1937 into the short-lived SNCA du Midi, or SNCAM, and produced the D.520. This was France's best-performing fighter at the outbreak of war, though production delays meant too few were produced to pose any serious opposition to the Luftwaffe during the Battle of France.

The end of Dewoitine as an individual business entity came with its absorption into SNCASE in December 1940, by which time Émile Dewoitine had departed to establish SIPA. No further aircraft were produced under the Dewoitine name.

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Dewoitine D.1 Dewoitine D.2 project Dewoitine D.3 project Dewoitine D.4 project Dewoitine D.5 project Dewoitine D.6 project Dewoitine D.7 Dewoitine D.9 Dewoitine D.10 project Dewoitine D.13 project Dewoitine D.14 Dewoitine D.15 Dewoitine D.17 project Dewoitine D.18 project Dewoitine D.19 Dewoitine D.21 Dewoitine D.22 project Dewoitine D.23 project Dewoitine D.24 project Dewoitine D.25 Dewoitine D.26 Dewoitine D.27 Dewoitine D.28 Dewoitine D.30 Dewoitine D.33 Dewoitine D.35 Dewoitine D.332 Dewoitine D.338 Dewoitine D.371 Dewoitine D.372 Dewoitine D.420 project Dewoitine D.430 Dewoitine D.440 project Dewoitine D.450 project Dewoitine D.470 project Dewoitine D.480 Dewoitine D.481 Dewoitine D.490 project Dewoitine D.500 Dewoitine D.513 Dewoitine D.520 Dewoitine D.551 Dewoitine D.560 Dewoitine D.580 project Dewoitine D.590 project Dewoitine D.600 project Dewoitine D.640 project Dewoitine D.650 project Dewoitine D.660 project Dewoitine D.680 project Dewoitine D.710 project Dewoitine D.720 Dewoitine D.750 Dewoitine D.760 project Dewoitine D.770 Dewoitine D.800 project Dewoitine D.810 project Dewoitine D.820 project Dewoitine D.860 project Dewoitine D.900 project Dewoitine HD.412 Dewoitine HD.460 project Dewoitine HD.730 Dewoitine P-1

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