Stampe & Vertongen SV4B G AIYG

Video from the channel The Hobby Hub - a Sarik Hobbies Channel about Stampe et Vertongen, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 3:08. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

Brief history of the Stampe et Vertongen SV.4, narrated over photographs of the aircraft G-AIYG.

Jean Stampe, a Belgian pilot in the First World War, founded the Antwerp-Deurne company in 1923 with Maurice Vertongen, which went on to become one of Belgium's largest flying schools. Its designer, Georges Ivanov, created the SV.4, which first flew in May 1933. In 1939 the Belgian government ordered 300 units, but the German invasion of 1940 cut production short.

After the war, a French state-owned manufacturer built 701 between 1945 and 1949, and Stampe et Renard produced 65 SV.4Bs for the Belgian Air Force. The G-AIYG was built in France in 1945 and passed through the French Air Force and through French, Belgian and British registers.