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The Caudron C.230 was a sporting, touring and trainer aircraft produced in
France
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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.
Fifteen examples were produced before the much improved and very successful
Caudron C.270 Luciole series appeared.
Variants
''Data from:''
* C.230 - first production version with Salmson 7Ac radial engine (15 built)
* C.232 - version with
Renault 4Pb
The Renault 4P, also called the Renault Bengali Junior, was a series of air-cooled 4-cylinder inverted inline aero engines designed and built in France from 1927, which produced from to .
Design and development
Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic Ocea ...
engine (50 built)
** C.232/2 - as C.232 with wheel brakes (3 built)
** C.232/4 - as C.232/2 with improved equipment (7 built)
* C.233 - prototype for testing of Michel AM-16 engine, later re-engined with Salmson 7Ac, reverting to C.230 designation. (1 built)
* C.235 - version with Argus As 8R engine for French Air Ministry (''Ministere de l'Air'') tests (1 built)
Specifications (C.232)
References
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All-Aero C.230{{Caudron aircraft
1930s French sport aircraft
C.230
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1930