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Sources :
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Hors série AVIONS No1 - "L'Aéronautique Navale
Française de Septembre 1940 à Juin 1940" by L.
Morareau - Editions LELA Presse
- Aéro-Journal
No18 "L'Aéronautique Navale en Guerre 1939-1940":
by Christian-Jacques EHRENGARDT - Editions Aéro-Editions
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Latecoere
521
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Baptized: "Lieutenant
de Vaisseau Paris" - It makes its first flight on June 17,
1935. This large Transatlantic can comfortably carry 72 passengers
on 2 levels; In December 1935, he made flights between Biscarosse
and North America, through Dakar, Martinique, .... But it will sink
at anchor in Florida during a hurricane January 14, 1936. Referred
to, it will be returned to France, or after repair, and registered
F-NORD, he resumed his long flights under the colors of Air France.
From October to December 1937, with Henri Guillaumet at the helm,
he will break records, including distance with a flight of nearly
5800kms between Morocco and Brazil, and will perform in August 1938,
a flight Biscarosse-New York.
Requisitioned in 1939, he
will be attached to E6 Squadron and will patrol the North Atlantic.
The aircraft will be destroyed during an aerial bombardment on the
pond of Berre in August 1944.
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Latecoere
522
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Baptized: "Ville de Saint-Pierre" - Derived version of Laté 521. Registered F-ARAP, it makes its first flight on April 20, 1939. It is powered by 6 Hispano-Suiza 12Y37 more powerful. Its interior layout is revised, and the design of the front of the fuselage is changed. He will only have two transatlantic flights before being requisitioned and joining the E-6 Squadron. The Navy will however make it to Air France in February 1940, and he joined Port Liautey on June 24, 1940. In 1942, he managed to force the allied blockade of Djibouti and Dakar to reach the pond of Berre where it will be destroyed in 1944 | ||||||
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Latecoere
523
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Baptized: "Altaïr" - It makes its first flight on January 20, 1938, will be withdrawn from service in August 1942 | ||||||
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Latecoere
523
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Baptized: "Alderaban" - The Aldebaran flew on October 21, 1938. June 18, 1940, in repair, will be abandoned and scuttled in Poulmic | ||||||
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Latecoere
523
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Baptized: "Algol" - It made its first flight July 16, 1938. It will be destroyed by accident following an accidental landing off Ushant in September 1939. The torpedo "Le Boulonnais" trying to tow it, hit it and severely damages it: the apparatus, lost, will be completed and sunk by the gun. | ||||||
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