How much runway did the Breguet 941 need?

Short answer

In its production version, the Breguet 941S needed a 185 m (607 ft) take-off run at a weight of 22,000 kg (48,502 lb). The 941S was powered by four Turbomeca Turmo IIID3 turboprops of 1,119 kW (1,501 hp) each, all linked by transmission shafts.

Published: November 5, 2026 · Updated: November 5, 2026 · Edited by Above Ten Thousand · Editorial policy

How much runway did the Breguet 941 need?

Breguet 941 - NASA

A 185-Metre Take-Off Run

In its production version, the Breguet 941S, the aircraft took off with a 185 m (607 ft) run at a weight of 22,000 kg (48,502 lb). The 941S mounted four Turbomeca Turmo IIID 3 turboprops of 1,119 kW (1,501 hp) each, with all four engines linked by transmission shafts.

The Blown Wing

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the French aviation pioneer Louis Charles Breguet developed a short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft concept with four free-turbine turboshafts driving a common power shaft; that shaft in turn drove four oversized propellers, spaced evenly along the leading edge of the wing, which was fitted with large full-span slotted flaps, in an arrangement known as "l'aile soufflée", or blown wing.

From the 940 Integral to Military Service

A first experimental prototype, the Breguet 940 Integral, powered by four Turbomeca Turmo II engines, flew on 21 May 1958 and served to test the concept, with excellent performance from short fields. The Breguet 941 first flew on 1 June 1961. The first production Breguet 941S flew on 19 April 1967. The four production Breguet 941s served in the French Air Force from 1967 to 1974.