C.230 | |
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C.232 partly visible in a background, during the Challenge 1930 competition | |
Role | Touring |
Manufacturer | Caudron |
Designer | Paul Deville |
First flight | 1930 |
Number built | 15 |
Variants | Caudron C.270 |
The Caudron C.230 was a sporting, touring and trainer aircraft produced in France in 1930. It was a conventional biplane with single-bay, unstaggered wings of equal span. The pilot and a single passenger sat in tandem open cockpits. It featured a wooden fuselage with plywood skin. [1]
Fifteen examples were produced before the much improved and very successful Caudron C.270 Luciole series appeared. [1]
Data from: [1]
Data from Aviafrance, [1] Flight, [2] All-Aero [3]
General characteristics
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