Caudron C.270

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name=C.270 Luciole


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type=Sports plane
manufacturer=Caudron
designer=Paul Deville
first flight=1931
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The Caudron C.270 "Luciole" ("Firefly") was a sporting, touring and trainer aircraft produced in France in the 1930s, derived from the Caudron C.230. It was a conventional biplane with single-bay, unstaggered wings of equal span. The pilot and a single passenger sat in tandem open cockpits. It featured a fabric-covered fuselage in place of the C.230's wooden one, and other refinements including revised control surfaces and undercarriage, and an improved and simplified wing-folding mechanism.

The type proved immensely successful, with over 700 machines built in the decade leading up to World War II. Of these, 296 were purchased by the French government for its pilot training programme, the "Aviation Populaire". Many examples saw wartime service as liaison aircraft, and those surviving the conflict saw postwar use as glider tugs in the Ecole de l'Air.

Variants

* C.270 - first production version with Salmson 7Ac radial engine (82 built)
** C.270/1 - version with Salmson 7Ac2 engine
* C.271 - version with Lorraine 5Pc engine (1 built)
** C.271/2 - version with Lorraine 5Pb engine
* C.272 - version with Renault 4Pb inline engine (52 built)
** C.272/2 - version with Renault 4Pci engine and taller, more pointed tail fin (22 built)
** C.272/3 - version with Renault 4Pdi engine and wheel brakes (15 built)
** C.272/4 - version with Renault 4Pei engine and wheel brakes (21 built)
** C.272/5 - version with Renault 4Pgi engine(80 built)
* C.273 - version with Michel 4 A-14 engine (14 built)
* C.274 - version with Chaise 4Ba engine for 1932 Paris Salon de l'Aéronautique (1 built)
* C.275 - main production version derived from C.272/5 but without wing folding (433 built)
* C.276 - version with de Havilland Gipsy III engine
** C.276H - version with Hirth HM 504A-2 engine (2 re-engined from C.276)
* C.277 - similar to C.272/4 with non-folding wings (9 built)
** C.272R - C.275 re-engined with Renault 4Po3 after the war (1 converted)
* C.278 - version with new undercarriage and Salmson 9Nc engine to compete in Challenge 1932 (1 built)

pecifications (C.272)

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crew=One pilot
capacity=1 passenger
length m=7.67
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wing area sqft=258
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empty weight kg=516
empty weight lb=1,138
gross weight kg=780
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max speed mph=98
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range km=500
range miles=311
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ceiling m=4,000
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External links

* [http://www.aviafrance.com/constructeur.php?ID_CONSTRUCTEUR=313 Aviafrance.com]

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sequence= ← C.230 - C.240 - C.250 - C.270 - C.280 - C.340 - C.360 →

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