The Farman F.300 and F.310 were airliners built in France in the early 1930s. They were

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s with fixed

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undercarriage with a

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layout popular with several manufacturers of the time. The cockpit and passenger compartment were fully enclosed. Most saw service in Farman's own airline, whose twelve F.300 variants made up half its fleet in 1931. One variant, the F.302, was specially built as a single-engine machine to make an attempt at a number of world records. On 9 March 1931, Jean Réginensi and Marcel Lalouette set new distance and duration records over a closed circuit with a 2,000 kg payload, flying in 17 hours. Another, the F.304 was built as a special trimotor for Marcel Goulette to make a long-distance flight the same month from

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and back. The F.310 prototype of a floatplane version of the same basic design, was destroyed while landing during trials, and no further examples were built.

Variants

;F.300: prototype with

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a engines (1 built) ;F.301: production version with

Salmson 9Ab Between 1920 and 1951 the Société des Moteurs Salmson in France developed and built a series of widely used air-cooled aircraft engines.Gunston 1986, p. 158. Design and development After their successful water-cooled radial engines, developed ...

engines (6 built) ;F.302: version powered with single Hispano-Suiza 12Nb for record attempt, (1 built, later re-engined with Hispano-Suiza 12Lbr ;F.303: production version with

Gnome et Rhône 5Ba The Bristol Titan was a British five-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the late 1920s. It had the same size cylinders as the earlier Bristol Mercury engine, (displacing ), and produced ...

engines (6 built) ;F.304: long-range version with

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engines (1 built) ;F.305: production version with

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engines (2 built) ;F.306: production version with

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e engines (4 built) ;F.310: floatplane version with

engines (1 built)

Operators

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operated four aircraft. * Farman Line operated 12 aircraft. ;: *

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operated 1 F.306 aircraft.

Specifications (F.301)

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