Caudron C.60
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|image = Caudron C.60 F-AINX St Cyr 05.57.jpg
|caption = Caudron C.60 at St-Cyr-l'Ecole airfield, Paris, in May 1957
|type = Training aircraft
|manufacturer = Caudron
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|primary_user = French Air Force
|more_users = Finnish Air Force
Latvian Navy
Venezuelan Air Force
Spanish Republican Air Force
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|developed_from = Caudron C.59
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The Caudron C.60 was a French two-seat biplane of the 1920s and 1930s with a single engine and a canvas-covered fuselage. The French aircraft manufacturer Caudron developed this aircraft from the Caudron C.59. It was mainly used as a trainer aircraft.
The Caudron C.60 was used in France, Finland, Latvia, and in Venezuela.
Operational history
The 1921 Michelin Cup for the fastest time over a {{convert|3000|km|mi|0|adj=on}} circuit of France was won by a C.60 flown by Alphonse Poiré, with a time of 37{{frac|1|4}} hours.{{cite journal|journal=Flight|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1921/1921%20-%200608.html|title= The International Michelin Cup|date=8 September 1921|page= 608}}
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The Finnish Air Force purchased 30 Caudron C.60s from France in 1923–1924. A further 34 aircraft were license-built in Finland 1927–1928. The Finnish Air Force had a total of 64 Caudron C.60s. The French-manufactured aircraft carried the codes 1E20–1E30 and 1F31–1F49, and later CA-20–CA-49. The Finnish-manufactured ones carried the codes CA-61–CA-94.{{cite book |last1=Keskinen |first1=Kalevi |last2=Stenman |first2=Kari |title=Suomen ilmavoimien lentokoneet, 1918-1993 - The aircraft of the Finnish Air Force, 1918-1993 |date=1992 |publisher=Ar-Kustannus Oy |location=Kangasala, Finland |isbn=951-95821-2-6 |language=Finnish}}
The aircraft were in use 1923–1936.
Operators
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Survivors
The Finnish Aviation Museum in Vantaa has one of the Finnish-manufactured C.60s (CA-84)
A Caudron C.60 (F-AINX) is visible at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace (le Bourget, France).
Specifications (C.60)
File:Caudron_C.60_3-view_L'Aerophile_September,1921.png
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|ref=Suomen ilmavoimien lentokoneet,{{cite book |first1=Kalevi |last1=Keskinen |first2=Kari |last2=Stenman |first3=Klaus |last3=Niska |title=Suomen ilmavoimien lentokoneet 1918-1939 |publisher=Tietoteos |year=1976 |language=Finnish}} Aviafrance:Caudron C.60,{{cite web |last1=Parmentier |first1=Bruno |title=Caudron C.60 |url=https://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?ID=190&ID_CONSTRUCTEUR=313&ANNEE=0&ID_MISSION=0&MOTCLEF= |website=Aviafrance |accessdate=11 March 2018 |location=Paris |language=fr |date=30 December 2001}} Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1924{{cite book |title=Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1924 |editor1-last=Grey |editor1-first=C.G. |year=1924 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & company, ltd |location=London|page=110b}}
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|height m=2.6
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|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=Clerget 9B
|eng1 type=9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine
|eng1 hp=130
|prop blade number=2
|prop name=fixed-pitch propeller
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|endurance=5 hours
|ceiling m=4000
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|wing loading kg/m2=33
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See also
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- List of interwar military aircraft
- List of military aircraft of France
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References
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Further reading
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- {{cite book|last1=Keskinen|first1=Kalevi|last2=Stenman|first2=Kari|last3=Partonen|first3=Kyösti|title=Suomen Ilmavoimat 1918-1927. Vol. 1|date=2005|publisher=[s.n.]|location=Espoo|isbn=952-99432-2-9 |language=Finnish}}
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