Latécoère 380

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The Latécoère 380 was a flying boat built in France in 1928 for use on Aéropostale's mail routes to South America and which later saw military service as a maritime patrol aircraft. It was a conventional flying boat design with a parasol wing braced to sponsons on the duselage sides, and two engines mounted in a tandem push-pull pair. In September 1931, it was used to set six world seaplane records, including three speed-with-load-over-distance records and a closed circuit distance-with-load record of 2,208 km (1,380 miles). A second mailplane was constructed soon afterwards, with the three military examples following in 1934.

Variants

* Latécoère 380 - mailplane version (2 built)
* Latécoère 381 - maritime patrol version (3 built). Armed with twin 7.5 mm Darne machine guns in three positions, and 300 kg (660 lb) of bombs on underwing racks.

Operators

* France
** Aéronavale
*** Escadrille 3E3 (Saint-Raphaël, 1934)
** Aéropostale

pecifications (Laté 380)

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References

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* [http://www.aviafrance.com/932.htm aviafrance.com]
* [http://www.airwar.ru/enc/flyboat/late38.html Уголок неба]