Caudron C.109


The Caudron C.109 was a light utility aircraft built in France in the late 1920s.

Design and development

The C.109 was a parasol-winged braced monoplane of conventional configuration with fixed tailskid undercarriage. The pilot and single passenger sat in tandem open cockpits. C.109s were used in a number of record attempts of the day, and were used to set distance records in the under 350 kg class of 868 km on 19 May 1927, and 1,581 km on 27 October 1927, a women's duration record of 26 hours 47 minutes on 27 July 1929, and the first crossing of Mediterranee by a woman, Lena Bernstein, 2268 km.

Survivors

At least one aircraft survived to fly postwar, F-PFLN, F-AIQI prewar, being airworthy at Mitry-Mory airfield near Paris in 1957. This aircraft is held in the collection of the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace at Le Bourget but is not currently on public display.

Variants

;C.109
;C.109.2
;C.110
;C.113:A development of the C.110, powered by a Anzani 6A-3 engine.
;C.114
;C.117

Operators