Stampe et Vertongen

Stampe et Vertongen

Stampe & Vertongen · Stampe et Renard

Two Antwerp pilots built a little biplane of which they made only 35 before the war, yet more than a thousand were eventually built, and two Belgian pilots used one to escape to England.

1922创立
已停业地位
6记录在案的飞机
1空军驾驶其机型
Photo: Le Pontential Aérien Mondial 1936 / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
国家比利时创立1922创始人Jean Stampe, Maurice Vertongen总部Antwerp地位已停业
故事

Stampe et Vertongen: the company and the aircraft that made its name

Two pilots and an engineer

Stampe et Vertongen was founded at Antwerp in 1922 by two pilots, Jean Stampe and Maurice Vertongen, with the engineer Alfred Renard as chief designer. Its first aircraft carried the prefix RSV, for Renard, Stampe and Vertongen: trainers and tourers such as the RSV.22 and RSV.32 biplanes. In the late 1920s the Renard brothers left to build aircraft and engines under their own name, and the company’s designations became simply SV.

The Stampe

Its masterpiece came in 1933. The SV.4 was a light two-seat aerobatic biplane, at first with a de Havilland Gipsy III engine, and it proved so successful that in some countries it is known simply as the Stampe. Stampe et Vertongen built only 35 before the German invasion halted production on 10 May 1940. The real numbers came under licence: SNCAN in France and the Atelier Industriel de l’Aéronautique d’Alger together built 940 SV.4Cs, widely used as a primary trainer by French military units and in French aero clubs.

Escape to England

In 1941 two Belgian pilots, Léon Divoy and Michel Donnet, took an SV.4 in occupied Belgium and flew it across the Channel to England; the RAF’s No. 510 Squadron later used it. After the war Jean Stampe and Alfred Renard joined forces again as Stampe et Renard and built 65 more SV.4s for the Belgian Air Force between 1948 and 1955. Sources differ on when it finally closed: 1957 in English accounts, January 1970 in French ones.

Two Antwerp pilots built a little biplane of which they made only 35 before the war, yet more than a thousand were eventually built, and two Belgian pilots used one to escape to England.Stampe et Vertongen · verified 2026-10-03

一览

Stampe et Vertongen in numbers

公司

简而言之
Founded 1922

  • Founded in Antwerp by pilots Jean Stampe and Maurice Vertongen
  • Chief designer Alfred Renard; early types prefixed RSV
  • Production stopped by the German invasion on 10 May 1940
  • Post-war successor Stampe et Renard

生产

最出名的是
SV.4 双翼飞机

  • SV.4: 35 built pre-war in Belgium
  • 65 more built by Stampe et Renard, 1948–1955
  • 940 licence-built in France and Algeria
  • About 1,040–1,050 SV.4s in total

今天

现在
已停业

  • Museum at Antwerp Airport

这些数字

SV.4 built in total
about 1,040–1,050
SV.4 built by the company before the war
35
SV.4C licence-built in France and Algeria
940
SV.4B built by Stampe et Renard
651948–1955

飞机

Every notable Stampe et Vertongen aircraft

飞机 角色 首航 建造 地位 笔记
Stampe et Vertongen RSV.22 Trainer biplane 已退休
Stampe et Vertongen RSV.26 Trainer and tourer biplane 已退休
Stampe et Vertongen RSV.32 Trainer biplane 已退休
Stampe et Vertongen SV.4 Aerobatic trainer and tourer biplane 1933 about 1,040–1,050 已退休 Mostly licence-built by SNCAN and AIA Algiers
Stampe et Vertongen SV.5 Military training biplane 已退休
Stampe et Vertongen SV.10 Biplane bomber 已退休

谁驾驶它们

Stampe et Vertongen aircraft in the world’s air forces

1 air forces in the Order of Battle fly or flew Stampe et Vertongen types. 其中 0 辆仍在服役。.

空军 在服役 以前飞过
拉脱维亚空军 Stampe et Vertongen SV.5 Tornado

地点、人物、记录

Where Stampe et Vertongen built, who led it, what it achieved

工厂

  • Antwerp works · Antwerp (Deurne) airfield

人们

  • Jean Stampe · co-founder, pilot — Revived the business with Alfred Renard after the war
  • Maurice Vertongen · co-founder, pilot
  • Alfred Renard · chief designer — Left in the late 1920s to found Renard Constructions Aéronautiques
  • Léon Divoy and Michel Donnet · Belgian pilots — Escaped to England in an SV.4 in 1941

纪录和第一

  • SV.4 flown from occupied Belgium to England by Léon Divoy and Michel Donnet in 1941

时间线

Stampe et Vertongen, year by year

1922

Stampe et Vertongen founded at Antwerp

1923

SV initials first used on aircraft

1925

Alfred and Georges Renard found their own engine company

1933

SV.4 first flight

1940

German invasion halts production

1941

Divoy and Donnet escape to England in an SV.4

1948

Stampe et Renard resumes SV.4 production for the Belgian Air Force

1955

Last of 65 post-war SV.4Bs delivered

1957

Company closes, according to English sources

1970

Stampe et Renard closes, according to French sources


问答

Everything people ask about Stampe et Vertongen

What is a Stampe?
The common name for the Stampe et Vertongen SV.4, a two-seat Belgian aerobatic biplane first flown in 1933.
How many Stampe SV.4s were built?
About 1,040 to 1,050, of which only 35 were built by Stampe et Vertongen before the war; 940 were licence-built in France and Algeria.
Who founded Stampe et Vertongen?
The Belgian pilots Jean Stampe and Maurice Vertongen, in Antwerp in 1922, with Alfred Renard as designer.
Was a Stampe used to escape occupied Belgium?
Yes. In 1941 Léon Divoy and Michel Donnet flew an SV.4 from Belgium to England.



参考资料及延伸阅读

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已验证 2026-10-03。.