Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques de l'ouest (SNCAO) was a state-owned French aircraft manufacturer which originated on November 16 1936 from the merger of the factories of Breguet in Bouguenais and Loire-Nieuport in St Nazaire and Issy-les-Moulineaux. The company had been formed as one of six state-owned Société Nationales in the 1936 nationalistation of military industries at then end of 1940 these were re-organised and SNCAO was absorbed by SNCASO.
