Gustav Blondeau

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name = Gustav Blondeau


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birth_date = 8 March 1871
birth_place = Tregnier, France
death_date = 3 March 1965
death_place = Luton, England
occupation = Aviator and business entrepreneur
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Gustav Jules Eugene Blondeau was an early pilot and went on to form Hewlett & Blondeau Limited, an aircraft manufacturer in the United Kindgdom. He was born on 8 March 1871 in Tregnier, France, (a small town to the North East of Paris) and graduated from Farman Aircraft at Mourmelon in France on July 10 1910 then joining the Gnome engine works. He later opened his own flying school at Brooklands, Surrey, (the famous motor racing circuit) where he met Hilda Hewlett. [ [http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ensegb/hbomnia. History of Hewlett and Blondeau] ]

Together they formed Hewlett & Blondeau and built Farman, Caudron, Avro and Hanriot aircraft under licence, they were the first UK producers of Caudron aircraft. Blondeau died on 3 March 1965 at 176 Old Bedford Road Luton. [LondonGazette|issue=43607|startpage=3031|date=23 March 1965|accessdate=2007-11-29]

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