Yet well born but unloved, the Breguet Type 763 had to overcome many obstacles and reluctance before being accepted into the great family of the Air France fleet. But finally arrived at the right time and in the right place, it played a primordial role in the exploitation of the Mediterranean and Saharan networks of the company, its modularity and its capacity of carrying oversized freight doing wonders.
Likewise, a rare occurrence in the aeronautical context of the time, the Deux-Ponts did not experience any fatal accident even if technical incidents were not lacking, like all the aircraft of its generation. In line with the design of our previous works, we went to meet witnesses, in this case those who have known the company this "time of the propellers".