__NOTOC__ The Caudron C.161 was a lightweight French two-seat biplane designed by

Caudron The Société des Avions Caudron was a French aircraft company founded in 1909 as the Association Aéroplanes Caudron Frères by brothers Gaston and René Caudron. It was one of the earliest aircraft manufacturers in France and produced planes for ...

for sport or

flight training Flight training is a course of study used when learning to pilot an aircraft. The overall purpose of primary and intermediate flight training is the acquisition and honing of basic airmanship skills. Flight training can be conducted under a str ...

use. A conventional biplane with a square

fuselage The fuselage (; from the French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an engine as well, although in some amphibious aircraft t ...

radial engine The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel. It resembles a stylized star when viewed from the front, and is ca ...

. It had two cockpits in tandem with dual controls in both, when not used as a trainer the controls could be removed from the rear cockpit. A variant, the C.168, with a more powerful Anzani radial engine was also available.

Variants

;C.161

:Variant with a Salmson 5Ac radial engine. ;C.168 :Variant with a Anzani 6-cylinder radial engine.

Specifications (C.168)

References

{{Caudron aircraft 1920s French sport aircraft C.160 Biplanes Aircraft first flown in 1927