Marcel Riffard (1886–1981) was a French aeronautical engineer. In the 1930s, while working at the design department of
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 ...
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Renault
Groupe Renault ( , , , also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured ...
, he designed a series of racer aircraft, as well as utility aircraft such as the
Caudron Simoun
The Caudron Simoun was a 1930s French four-seat touring monoplane. It was used as a mail plane by Air Bleu, flew record-setting long-range flights, and was also used as a liaison aircraft by the ''Armée de l'Air'' during World War II. The airc ...
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He also designed race and record cars for Renault and Panhard (Le Mans 1953).
French aerospace engineers
1886 births
1981 deaths
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