Caudron C.60
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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 | |
|---|---|
| Caudron C.60 at St-Cyr-l'Ecole airfield, Paris, in May 1957 | |
| General information | |
| Type | Training aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Caudron |
| Primary users | French Air Force |
| History | |
| Developed from | Caudron C.59 |
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-kilometre (1,864 mi) circuit of France was won by a C.60 flown by Alphonse Poiré, with a time of 371⁄4 hours.[1]
Finland
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.
Operators
Survivors
The Finnish Aviation Museum in Vantaa has one of the Finnish-manufactured C.60s (CA-84)
A Caudron C.60 (F-AINX) is visible at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace (le Bourget, France).
Specifications (C.60)
Data from Suomen ilmavoimien lentokoneet,[3] Aviafrance:Caudron C.60,[4] Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1924[5]
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
- Upper wingspan: 10.24 m (33 ft 7 in)
- Lower wingspan: 9.52 m (31 ft 3 in)
- Height: 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in)
- Wing area: 26 m2 (280 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 505 kg (1,113 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 862 kg (1,900 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Clerget 9B 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine, 97 kW (130 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 150 km/h (93 mph, 81 kn)
- Endurance: 5 hours
- Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,000 ft)
- Time to altitude: 4,000 m (13,000 ft) in 36 minutes
- Wing loading: 33 kg/m2 (6.8 lb/sq ft)
- Power/mass: 0.1129 kW/kg (0.0687 hp/lb)
