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passenger and mail transport aircraft designed and built by the Farman Aviation Works. It was a smaller counterpart to the company's popular

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. The F.70 was an unequal-span two-bay

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with a wooden fuselage and was powered by a Renault 12Fe

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. The pilot was seated in an open cockpit behind the nose-mounted engine. Behind the open cockpit was a cabin for four passengers or freight. The aircraft could be fitted with a Gnome-Rhône Jupiter 9Aa radial engine and was then designated the Farman F.73. An experimental three-seat bomber variant was built but did not go into production. Several aircraft of this series entered service with French airlines in the 1920s. The main operator was Farman's own airline Lignes Farman who operated five aircraft between Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels. Lignes Aeriennes Latécoère used the aircraft to operate passenger and mail routes between

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and Dakar and also from

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to Biskra. Other operators used the aircraft on French internal routes. The

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operator Aero acquired five F.70s in 1925.

Variants

;F.70 :Main production variant powered by a 300hp (224kW) Renault 12Fe V-12 piston engine. ;F.73 :Variant re-engined with a 380hp (282kW) Gnome et Rhône 9Aa Jupiter radial piston engine.

Operators

; *

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; * Lignes Farman operated five aircraft. * Lignes Aeriennes Latécoère operated four aircraft.Civil Aircraft Register France Aéropostale
/ref> ; * Aero bought five F.70s in 1925. ; * Venezuelan Air Force

Specifications (F.70)

References

Bibliography

* The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1739 * {{Farman aircraft 1920s French civil utility aircraft F.0070 Biplanes Single-engined tractor aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1920