همبرت للطيران
A family workshop in the Vosges whose Volkswagen-engined microlight became a military aircraft: France tested the Tetras at Istres and gave it to half a dozen African air forces.
Humbert Aviation: the company and the aircraft that made its name
A motorbike for the sky
In 1980, at the very start of the French microlight boom, Jacques Humbert designed an open-cockpit, tandem two-seater he called La Moto du Ciel, the sky motorbike. Where most early microlights ran on noisy two-stroke engines, his became, in the company’s words, the first microlight with a reliable four-stroke engine, built on a Volkswagen base. After four years of flying it, he founded Humbert Aviation in 1984 at Ramonchamp, in the Vosges. A version with a bubble canopy followed in 1989, as the first Rotax 912 engines appeared.
The grouse that went to war
The firm’s second design, the Tetras (French for grouse), is an enclosed two-seat high-wing aircraft with a steel-tube fuselage and fabric-covered wings. The company dates the first prototype to 1991 and sales to 1993; it was shown publicly at the RSA rally at Moulins in 1992. In 1999 the French flight test centre, the CEV at Istres, put it through military trials. France later donated Tetras to Burkina Faso and Guinea, and the type has flown with the air forces of Cameroon, Madagascar, Mali and Niger, where it has also sprayed insecticide.
Family firm, family runway
Humbert has remained a family business. Jean-Jacques Humbert joined as test pilot in 1995 and Marie-Hélène Humbert took over administration in 2005. In 1997 the company laid out its own 400-metre grass runway beside a 700 square metre workshop, and in 2000 production space grew to 1,300 square metres. About 150 Tetras were on the French microlight register in October 2010, and according to the French microlight federation about 550 Moto du Ciel and Tetras had been built in all.
Humbert Aviation in numbers
الشركة
- باختصار
- تأسست عام 1984
- Founded by Jacques Humbert at Ramonchamp, Vosges
- Family-run: Jean-Jacques Humbert test pilot from 1995
- Own 400 m runway since 1997
إنتاج
- اشتهر بـ
- Tetras, Moto du Ciel
- About 550 aircraft built in total (FFPLUM)
- Tetras variants B, CS, CSL, CSR and CTS
اليوم
- الآن
- Building the Tetras
- Military users in Cameroon, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Guinea
الأرقام
- Aircraft built (Moto du Ciel and Tetras)
- about 550
- Tetras on the French microlight register
- حوالي 1502010
- Production floor
- 1,300 square metres2000
Every notable Humbert Aviation aircraft
Photos: Huhu Uet / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
| الطائرات | دور | الرحلة الأولى | تم البناء | حالة | ملحوظة |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humbert La Moto du Ciel | Open-cockpit tandem two-seat microlight | قيد الإنتاج | First microlight with a reliable four-stroke (VW-based) engine, per the maker | ||
| همبرت تتراس | Two-seat high-wing microlight and light military utility aircraft | 1991 | قيد الإنتاج | Tested by the CEV in 1999; flown by several African air forces |
Humbert Aviation aircraft in the world’s air forces
4 air forces in the Order of Battle fly or flew Humbert Aviation types. اثنان منهم لا يزال لديهم واحد قيد الخدمة.
| القوات الجوية | في الخدمة | كانت تُنقل جواً سابقاً |
|---|---|---|
| القوات الجوية الكاميرونية | همبرت تيتراس | |
| القوات الجوية الملغاشية | تتراس | |
| القوات الجوية في بنين | همبرت تيتراس | |
| القوات الجوية لبوركينا فاسو | همبرت تتراس |
Where Humbert Aviation built, who led it, what it achieved
المصانع
- Ramonchamp works and airfield · Ramonchamp, Vosges — 400 m runway and 700 square metre hangar from 1997; 1,300 square metres from 2000
الناس
- Jacques Humbert · founder and designer — Designed the Moto du Ciel in 1980 and the Tetras
- Jean-Jacques Humbert · test pilot — Joined 1995
الأرقام القياسية والأولويات
- First microlight fitted with a reliable four-stroke engine, according to the company
Humbert Aviation, year by year
Jacques Humbert designs La Moto du Ciel
Humbert Aviation founded
Bubble-canopy Moto du Ciel
First Tetras built
Tetras shown at the RSA rally, Moulins
Tetras sales begin (company); Wikipedia gives 1994
Company runway and hangar built
Military trials at the CEV, Istres
Three Tetras donated by France to Burkina Faso
Everything people ask about Humbert Aviation
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Around Humbert Aviation
كل حقيقة، تم التحقق منها
- Humbert Tétras – Wikipedia
- Humbert, de la Moto du Ciel au Tetras – FFPLUM
- L’histoire – Humbert Aviation
تم التحقق بتاريخ 2026-10-03.