Mauboussin M.120
The Mauboussin M.120 was a trainer and touring aircraft built in France in the 1930s and again in the years following World War II. Design and production. It was based on a 1931 Peyret-Mauboussin collaboration between Louis Peyret and Pierre Mauboussin, the Peyret-Mauboussin PM.XII, and like it, was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of wooden construction. The undercarriage was of fixed tailskid type, and the pilot and instructor sat in tandem, open cockpits. Mauboussin built a number of prototypes himself, followed by a small series manufactured for him by Breguet in 1934. At one stage Mauboussins  were produced by the Société Zodiac. In 1936, Fouga, then a builder of railway rolling stock, purchased all rights to the design as part of an effort to enter the aircraft industry and was able to secure a contract from the Armée de l'Air to supply the type as the M.123. Production was restarted by Fouga after the war for the French flying clubs. Operations. One of first M.120s took part in the international touring aircraft contest Challenge 1932, flown by André Nicolle. It completed contest on the last 24th place, but it had the weakest engine of all participants  and completing this contest was quite a success anyway. Two competed the following year, one of them with an all-women crew for probably the first time. Again, low engine power left them low in the final table. After the Angers competition on 2 August 1933, one of the women (Hélène Boucher) set a new women's world altitude record at in the M.120. In 1935 Maryse Hilsz increased it to on 24 September in the M.122.