Bordeaux-Aéronautique

Bordeaux Aéronautique (BA) was a French aeronautic company founded on 17 March 1939, by Marcel Bloch, André Curvale, Henri Deplante and Claude de Cambronne.

History
Facing plane production increase, the SAAMB buys in September 1939, in Talence, near Bordeaux, industrial buildings in a workshop next to the Château de Brama (also called Castle of Edward, the Black Prince) which is retroceded to Bordeaux-Aéronautique. France produces at that time the most important rearmament.

The company was supposed to produce for the Vichy French Air Force, front fuselages of Bloch MB.175 and Bloch MB.1020 aircraft, but after the Battle of Dunkirk, production stopped at the end of 1940, during the German military administration when Marcel Bloch is arrested on 6 October 1940. During his detention at Thiers, theCommissariat général aux questions juives sends to the regional directions of the economic epuration service of Marseilles and Limoges the order to investigate the Bloch companies.