__NOTOC__ The CAMS 58 was a transport

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built in France in the early 1930s intended as a successor to the highly successful

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. Compared to the earlier design, the CAMS 58 featured a newly designed

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wing cellule and an all-metal

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in place of its predecessor's wooden hull. Work was slow, with three years passing from the start of design work to the

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's first flight. When the newly formed Air France showed no interest in purchasing the type, CAMS redesigned it to be powered by two pairs of engines in tractor-pusher installations. Again, no interest was forthcoming. The final iteration of the design, reverting to a single pair of more powerful engines and a wooden hull, met with only slightly more success. Air France bought two machines and operated them briefly before declaring them uneconomical and removing them from service.

Variants

* 58/0 - prototype with Hispano-Suiza 12Fa engines (one built) * 58/2 - four-engine version with Lorraine 9Na Algol engines (one built) * 58/3 - version with

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engines (two built)

Specifications (58/3)

References

* * {{CAMS aircraft 58 1930s French airliners Flying boats Biplanes Twin-engined push-pull aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1933