Aeroplanes Voisin was a French aircraft manufacturing company established in 1905 by Gabriel Voisin and his brother Charles, and continued by Gabriel after Charles died in an automobile accident in 1912, when the full official name became Societe Anonyme des Aeroplanes G. Voisin. During the First World War it was a major producer of military aircraft, notably the Voisin III. After the war Gabriel Voisin abandoned the aviation industry and set up a company to make automobiles. The firm was based in Billancourt, Paris.
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Aéroplanes Voisin was a French aircraft manufacturing company established in 1905 by Gabriel Voisin and his brother Charles, and was continued by Gabriel after Charles died in an automobile accident in 1912; the full official company name then became Société Anonyme des Aéroplanes G.
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