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what is it?
The Caudron C.59 was a French, two-seat biplane with a single engine and a canvas-covered fuselage, produced between 1922 and 1924. Suitable for a variety of roles, more than 1,800 Caudron C.59s were manufactured.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · biplane · 10.2 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 105 years ago, in 1921.
- Wingspan of 10.2 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1921-08
- introduced
- 1922
- number built
- 1,800
- role
- multi-purpose aircraft
- makers
- Caudron
- engines
- 1× Hispano-Suiza 8Ab / Hispano-Suiza 8
- crew
- 2
- length
- 7.8 m
- wingspan
- 10.2 m
- height
- 2.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 988 kg
- top speed
- 180 km/h
- range
- —
- wings
- biplane
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3205556, Wikipedia: Caudron C.59 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.