what is it?
The Caudron C.530 Rafale (English: Gust) was a French two seat competition aircraft. Only seven were built but they had great success in several contests during 1934.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.2 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 92 years ago, in 1934.
- Top speed is 2.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 9.2 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,300 km: 7× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1934
- number built
- 7
- role
- two seat racing and sports aircraft
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- engines
- 1× Renault Bengali Sport
- length
- 7.5 m
- wingspan
- 9.2 m
- height
- 1.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 900 kg
- top speed
- 300 km/h
- cruise speed
- 265 km/h
- range
- 1,300 km
- ceiling
- 6,250 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q20670251, Wikipedia: Caudron C.530 Rafale (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.