F-ANVP Bloch 120
(c/n 9)
Eleven tri-motor Bloch 120s were built in
1934/35. Seven of them went to the newly formed
Air France
subsidiary Air Afrique for services in Africa, and four to the French
Air Force
(Armee de
L'Air). In 1935 two of the Air Afrique machines (F-ANTK and
F-ANVP, above)
were loaned to
Service de la Navigatuion Aerienne de Madagascar for operating their
service
between
Tananarive and Broken Hill in Northern Rhodesia. This
service was taken over by
Air
Afrique itself in 1937, and the Madagascar company limited itself to
services within the
island. The fate of F-ANVP after 1940 is unknown.