The Caudron C.60 was a French two-seat biplane of the 1920s and 1930s with a single engine and a canvas-covered fuselage. The French aircraft manufacturer Caudron developed this aircraft from the Caudron C.59. It was mainly used as a trainer aircraft.
Caudron C.60 | |
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Caudron C.60 at St-Cyr-l'Ecole airfield, Paris, in May 1957 | |
Role | Training aircraft |
Manufacturer | Caudron |
Primary users | French Air Force Finnish Air Force Latvian Navy Venezuelan Air Force Spanish Republican Air Force |
Developed from | Caudron C.59 |
The Caudron C.60 was used in France, Finland, Latvia, and in Venezuela.
The 1921 Michelin Cup for the fastest time over a (3,000 km {1,860 mi) circuit of France was won by a C.60 flown by Alphonse Poiré, with a time of 371⁄4 hours.[1]
The Finnish Air Force purchased 30 Caudron C.60s from France in 1923–1924. A further 34 aircraft were license-built in Finland 1927–1928. The Finnish Air Force had a total of 64 Caudron C.60s. The French-manufactured aircraft carried the codes 1E20–1E30 and 1F31–1F49, and later CA-20–CA-49. The Finnish-manufactured ones carried the codes CA-61–CA-94.[2]
The aircraft were in use 1923–1936.
The Finnish Aviation Museum in Vantaa has one of the Finnish-manufactured C.60s (CA-84)
Data from Suomen ilmavoimien lentokoneet,[3] Aviafrance:Caudron C.60,[4] Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1924[5]
General characteristics
Performance
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