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Aircraft and configuration
Restauravia's MS.733 Alcyon has a 240 hp piston engine, retractable landing gear and flap settings of 16 and 32 degrees. The cockpit combines an airspeed indicator in knots, an altimeter in feet and a vertical-speed indicator in hectometres per minute.
Morane-Saulnier MS.733 Alcyon
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Restauravia's MS.733 Alcyon has a 240 hp piston engine, retractable landing gear and flap settings of 16 and 32 degrees. The cockpit combines an airspeed indicator in knots, an altimeter in feet and a vertical-speed indicator in hectometres per minute.
History & design
From prototypes to the Alcyon
The Alcyon followed a sequence of MS.730, MS.731 and MS.732 prototypes with different engines and landing-gear arrangements. The MS.733 combined the Potez engine with a revised retracting undercarriage and first flew on 16 April 1951. Ailes Anciennes Toulouse records five pre-series machines followed by two hundred production aircraft.
Ailes Anciennes Toulouse · Morane Saulnier MS733 Alcyon ↗Preservation association’s MS.733 development history
A trainer with three places
The instructor and pupil sat alongside one another, with a third place behind for an observer. Military training service was followed by civilian professional-pilot training at centres including Saint-Yan and Challes-les-Eaux. The association dates the military training period to 1963 and the later civil training use to 1978.
Ailes Anciennes Toulouse · Morane Saulnier MS733 Alcyon ↗MS.733 training roles and cabin arrangement
Systems & details
Precise controls, modest power
Ailes Anciennes Toulouse describes the Alcyon as pleasant and precise to fly, but underpowered. Its account connects those limits with the difficulty of adapting it to observation and attack work in hot conditions in Algeria. This is the association’s qualitative assessment of the aircraft, not a measured force-feedback calibration.
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Controls and equipmentMorane-Saulnier MS.733 Alcyon
The manual identifies pitch trim and labels the chocks, pitot covers and stick lock as visual accessories. Its flap-speed table contains conflicting values, so those figures are not combined into a single limit.
MS.733 English manual · pages 3–6
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Simulator documentation
Morane-Saulnier MS.733 Alcyon — simulator documentationrestauravia.fr · MS.733 English manual · pages 3–6Aircraft history
Morane Saulnier MS733 AlcyonAiles Anciennes Toulouse · Reviewed aircraft history and characteristics; archived 2026-10-12Built-in force-feedback profiles
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Catalogue programme-20261011-v3 · 1 profile choice
Restauravia Morane-Saulnier MS.733 Alcyon
Restauravia · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
A piston trainer represented with retractable gear and two flap settings.
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