TNCA, the Talleres Nacionales de Construcciones Aeronáuticas (national aviation workshops) was an aircraft manufacturer established outside Mexico City

Mexico City

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 in 1915

1915 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1915:- Events :* The United States Navy establishes a lighter-than-air arm, charged with the operation of airships and of kite balloons to be towed behind warships...

. The main designers were General Brigadier and engineer Juan Francisco Azcárate

Juan Francisco Azcárate

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, and italian engineer Francisco Santarini, who manufactured a variety of domestically-designed military aircraft and engines, including:

• TNCA Serie A - biplane.
• TNCA Serie C- monoplane, powered by a Hispano-Suiza engine. Also called Microplano Veloz and Microbio.
• TNCA Serie D, F and G - derived from the Bleriot and Morane-Saulnier aircraft.
• TNCA Serie E- biplane.
• TNCA Serie H - bomber, monoplane, high wing, double control.
• TNCA MWT-1
• TNCA TTS-5
• 3-E-130 - monoplane nicknamed Tololoche.
• TNCA 4-E-131 Quetzalcoatl
• Avro 504
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   - built under license and called Avro Anáhuac.
• Corsair O2U-4A  - built under license and named Corsario Azcárate.

The TNCA also designed and manufactured the 45hp Azatl, 80hp Trébol engines as well as the very high performance Anáhuac Propeller, later copied by several countries.

TNCA closed in 1930

1930 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1930:- Events :* The Surrey Aero Club inaugurates recreational flights from Gatwick Race Course .* The German airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes its first crossing of the South Atlantic....

, it was briefly revived in 1941

1941 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1941:- Events :* Jackie Cochran became the first woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic Ocean.* During the spring and summer, the Imperial Japanese Navys air arm conducts Operation 102, its second major bombing campaign against Chungking.* By early...

 under the name Talleres Generales de Aeronáutica (TGA) and again in 1947

1947 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1947:-January:* January 11 – The BOAC Douglas C-47A G-AGJX crashes into a hill at Stowting in southeast England, killing eight of the 16 people on board and injuring all eight survivors...

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Engines

Aztatl

The first aircraft engine manufactured in Mexico starting on 1917. The engine was an air-cooled radial and was built in versions of three, six (80 hp) and ten cylinders

SS México

National design and manufacture.

Trébol

A three-cylinder, 45 hp engine.

Anzani, Gnome and Hispano-Suiza

Built in Mexico under licence.

Few TNCA aircraft were powered by Wright and Renault engines.

See also

• Mexican aviation Aztec Anachronism http://www.laahs.com/artman/publish/article_16.shtml
• TNCA 3-E-130