Potez-CAMS 161 Flying Boat

The Potez-CAMS 161 was designed as a large six-engined passenger flying boat to operate the North Atlantic routes. The Latécoère 631 and the SNCASE SE.200 were competitors for the same market.

Development was curtailed by the start of World War Two, although the first and only prototype was completed under German occupation. Initially marked in Air France livery with reistration F-BAGV and powered by six 664 kW (890 hp) Hispano-Suiza 12Ydrs liquid cooled V-12 engines, tests were commenced in early 1942.

Seized by Germany and coded VE+WW, it was destroyed in an Allied air attack before tests were complete.