Caudron C.60

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 Finnish Air Force Latvian Navy Venezuelan Air Force Spanish Republican Air Force
History
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.

A Caudron C.60 at the Musée de l'Air in Le Bourget

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

  Finland

• Finnish Air Force

  France

• French Air Force

  Latvia

• Latvian Navy

  Spain

• Spanish Republican Air Force

  Venezuela

• Venezuelan Air Force

Survivors

Caudron C.60 trainer in the Finnish Aviation Museum.

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)

Caudron C.60 3-view drawing from L'Aerophile September,1921

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)

See also

• Aviation portal

Related lists

• List of interwar military aircraft
• List of military aircraft of France
• List of aircraft of the Finnish Air Force

References

1. "The International Michelin Cup". Flight : 608. 8 September 1921.
2. Keskinen, Kalevi; Stenman, Kari (1992). Suomen ilmavoimien lentokoneet, 1918-1993 - The aircraft of the Finnish Air Force, 1918-1993 (in Finnish). Kangasala, Finland: Ar-Kustannus Oy. ISBN   951-95821-2-6.
3. Keskinen, Kalevi; Stenman, Kari; Niska, Klaus (1976). Suomen ilmavoimien lentokoneet 1918-1939 (in Finnish). Tietoteos.
4. Parmentier, Bruno (30 December 2001). "Caudron C.60". Aviafrance (in French). Paris. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
5. Grey, C.G., ed. (1924). Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1924. London: Sampson Low, Marston & company, ltd. p. 110b.

Further reading

• Keskinen, Kalevi; Stenman, Kari; Partonen, Kyösti (2005). Suomen Ilmavoimat 1918-1927. Vol. 1 (in Finnish). Espoo: [s.n.] ISBN   952-99432-2-9.