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 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.
The Caudron C.60 was used in France, Finland, Latvia, and in Venezuela.
Operational history
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 Poirée, with a time of 371⁄4 hours.[1]
Finland
The Finnish Air Force purchased 30 Caudron C.60s from France in 1923. A further 34 aircraft were license-built in Finland between 1927-1928. The Finnish Air Force had a total of 64 64 Caudron C.60s. The French-manufactured aircraft carried the codes 1E20 - 1E30 and 1F31 - 1F49, and later CA-20 - CA-9. The Finnish-manufactured ones carried the codes CA-61 - CA-94.
The aircraft was in use between 1923-1936.
Operators
- Latvian Navy
Survivors
The Finnish Aviation Museum in Vantaa has one of the Finnish-manufactured C.60s (CA-84)
Specifications (C.60)
Data from Suomen ilmavoimien lentokoneet
General characteristics
- Crew: two
- Length: 7.50 m (26 ft 7 in)
- Wingspan: 10.24 m (33 ft 7 in)
- Height: 2.60 m (8 ft 6 in)
- Wing area: 26.00 m² (279.7 ft²)
- Empty weight: 505 kg (1,111 lb)
- Loaded weight: kg (lb)
- Useful load: kg (kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 862 kg (1,896 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Clerget 9B radial engine, 97 kW (130 hp)
Performance
- Never exceed speed: km/h (knots, mph)
- Maximum speed: 150 km/h (81 knots, 93 mph)
- Cruise speed: km/h (knots, mph)
- Stall speed: km/h (knots, mph)
- Range: km (nm, mi)
- Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,120 ft)
- Rate of climb: m/s (ft/min)
- Wing loading: kg/m² (lb/ft²)
- Power/mass: W/kg (hp/lb)
- Endurance: 5 hours
See also
- Related lists
- List of Interwar military aircraft
- List of military aircraft of France
- List of aircraft of the Finnish Air Force
Notes
- ↑ "The International Michelin Cup". Flight: 608. 8 September. Check date values in:
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References
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- Kalevi Keskinen, Kyösti Partonen, Kari Stenman, Suomen Ilmavoimat I 1918-27, 2005. ISBN 952-99432-2-9.
- Kalevi Keskinen, Kari Stenman, Klaus Niska, Suomen ilmavoimien lentokoneet 1918-1939, Tietoteos, 1976.
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