Latécoère 32 | |
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Latécoère 32.3 | |
Role | Flying boat mail plane |
National origin | France |
Manufacturer | Latécoère [1] |
First flight | 1928 |
Primary user | Aéropostale [1] |
Number built | 8 |
Developed from | Latécoère 23 |
The Latécoère 32 was a flying boat built in France in 1928 for use on Aéropostale's mail routes to North Africa.
A strengthened and enlarged version of the Latécoère 23, it was a parasol-wing monoplane with sponsons for stability in the water and two engines mounted in tandem push-pull configuration on the wing.
Put into service on the Marseilles- Algiers and Toulouse-Algiers routes, the aircraft proved most unreliable and were involved in a number of accidents. At the end of 1931, the five surviving examples were re-engined with Hispano Suiza 12Hbr engines [1] and re-designated Latécoère 32-3, [1] which persisted in service a little longer.
Eight Latécoère 32's were built with the following construction numbers (numéros d'usine) and registrations: [1]-
Data from [1]
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