It was designed by André Brunet (who was the chief designer of Ateliers de Construction du Nord - ANF) who had previous experience with other designs of the type like the Mureaux 130A.2 recon plane. All his designs had in common a parasol wing, a metal frame and a fixed broad-gauge landing gear. After some minor modifications and improvements, the Mureaux 110 A.2 and 112.GR aircraft were completed, flying for the first time in 1931.
The French Air Ministry was impressed by the performance of the 110, placed a contract for its serial production under the denomination of Les Mureaux 113R.2. The pilot and the observer were seated in open cockpits, back to back, with the rear cockpit having a large windshield and a single defensive 7.5mm MAC 34 machine gun. It was powered by a Hispano-Suiza 12Ybrs which delivered 650 hp of power and drove a two-bladed propeller and had a radiator protruding in the lower part of the nose.
A total of 51 machines were completed between September 1933 (when the type entered mass production) and January 1935 (when the type was discontinued in favour of more modern types such as the Les Mureaux 115) at Atelier des Mureaux, in the town of Les Mureaux which was later nationalised as part of the SNCAN complex.
Additionally, a night-fighter version was built (which we already covered it some years ago) named Les Mureaux 114 CN.2, but it never went beyond the prototype stage and some of them were fitted with small underwing searchlights.
It entered service with the Armée de l'Air's reconnaissance Groupes (a unit existing only in the French Air Force) and, eventually replacing the venerable Potez 25 in the Groupe Aériens Régionaux reserve units. When the World War 2 began in September 1939, the ANF 113 was limited to frontline recon operations but as outdated as they were, they were promptly scrapped or suited to the night-recon role.
1. http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/mureaux113.html (translated)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANF_Les_Mureaux_113
3. https://www.valka.cz/ANF-Les-Mureaux-113-R-2-t42736
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