User:Nigel Ish/Sandbox Jodel Ambassadeur

The Jodel Ambassadeur is a French three/four seat single-engined light aircraft of the 1950s and 60s. A number of versions of the aircraft were built, both by Pierre Robin's Centre-Est Aeronautique and by Société Aeronautique Normande, with well over 400 examples being built.

Design and development
In the late 1950s, Pierre Robin, a French flying instructor, was interested in building a three-seat version of the Jodel D11 light aircraft. The result of a collaboration between Robin and the designer of the Jodel, Jean Delemontez was the Jodel DR.100 Ambassadeur, which made its maiden flight on 14 July 1958.

The Ambassadeur was certified on 10 July 1959, entering production both at Robin's own company, Centre-Est Aeronautique at Dijon and under license by Société Aeronautique Normande at Bernay.

Variants

 * DR.100
 * Original version with 90 hp Continental C90 engine. 10 built by CEA and about 250 by SAN by 1961.


 * DR.1050
 * Improved version with 100 hp Continental O-200 engine.


 * DR.1051
 * Version of DR.1050 with 105 hp Potez 4E engine.


 * DR.1052 Excellence
 * Modified version of DR.1050 built by SAN, with modified tail and available with O-200 or Potez 4E engines.