SNCAC NC.701 Martinet SE-KAE was used by the Swedish Govt mapping agency; Rikets Allmänna Kartverk (RAK), 1948-70. The aircraft is nowdays stored at the Flygvapenmuseum at Malmen, Linköping. Photo by Georg Bergström (RAK).

Built in 1948, ex French AF No24. Registered in Sweden as SE-KAN in June 1963 to Rikets Allmänna Kartverk, the Swedish national mapping agency. Withdrawn from use at Bromma in 1967 and scrapped.

This is the former SE-KAG, a NC-701 Martinet (Siebel Si204D), which Sweden's Rikets Allmänna Kartverk (Land Survey Department) took delivery of in April 1948 from the French Air Force. The aircraft crash landed into Lake Mälaren four years later in April 1952. The undercarriage did not deploy and the crew abandoned the aircraft which "landed" in the lake. It was recovered and repaired and returned to service in January 1954. The last flight was 1 June 1967 from Borlänge to Bromma and put into storage due to corroison. It was struck off charge in December 1967.

Former mapping aircraft now stored. The slide gives 1970 as photo year. The aircraft was delivered to the Flygvapen museet (air force museum) at Malmslätt on 30 December 1970. Photo via G. Bouma

French derivative of the Siebel Si 204, the NC-701 was powered by 590 hp Renault 12S engines. SNCAC (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Centre), commonly known as Aérocentre, produced 240 NC.701 Martinet just after the end of WW2. Most of them were used by French Air force and also Navy as utility and trainer aircraft. This one was assigned to Fighter Squadron "Languedoc" (EC 2/8).