RENÉ CAUDRON
1884-1959
  
 
Giuseppe Cei
  
 
LE CROTOY - Ecole d'Aviation des Freres CAUDRON
Les Aviateurs René Caudron et Jean Cei
LE CROTOY - Caudron Brothers Aviation School
The Aviators René Caudron and Jean Cei
Photo courtesy of Valerio Vallini, 4-14-05
  

 
  BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
via email from Dave Lam, 10-26-06      Rene Caudron (French license # 180-)-- Born 1 July 1884 in Favieres, France. Died 28 September 1959 in Vron, France
     With his brother Gaston (French License 484) ( 18 January 1882 to 12 December 1915), he constructed their first biplane at their family farm in 1908. It first flew, as a glider, in spring of 1909, towed by their farm mare. Continuing to develop their aircraft, they built a factory at Rue, and then started a pilot training school at Crotoy. They built their first G-3 and G-4 airplanes for the French military at Rue, and then later moved the factory to Lyon, and finally to a factory at Issy-les Moulineux in 1915. During a test flight at Lyon, Gaston was killed in 1915.
     The continued production of the Caudron factory produced innumerable aircraft for the French military, especially the G-3, G-4, R4, and R-11 Models. Up to the time of World War 2, they had trained over 17,000 pilots and produced more than 10,000 aircraft.
Hope that helps.
Dave		  

 
 
SCENE AND AVIATORS
AT INTERNATIONAL AVIATION MEET
THE DAILY JOURNAL AND TRIBUNE,
KNOXVILLE, TENN., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1913
via email from Bob Davis, 7-24-06
  
 
Rene Caudron
  
 
MR. CAUDRON IN HIS BIPLANE
     The international aviation meet at Rheims, France, is one of the biggest events in the aeroplane world, for nearly every nation has entered its crack pilots and machines. The United States representative cannot fly, as no machine could be secured for him.
     Mr. Eugene Gilbert's Deperdussin monoplane is one of the fastest machines in the contest and is capable of flying 119 miles an hour.
     Mr. Rene Caudron in a Caudron aeroplane, won the cross-country race of 93 miles in the biplane class in 1 h. 35m. 31s.		  

 
 
ONLINE RESOURCES
     If you search for "René Caudron", using the Google search engine, (6-5-04), you will only find about 739 links! A good place to start is the following:		  
 
The Pioneers: Gaston & René Caudron
     You will find a wealth of material, both text and photographs, on this very helpful website. You can access it by clicking on the title above., 		 

 
 
 
 
René Caudron died in 1959.

 
Editor's Note:
If you have any more information on this pioneer aviator,
please contact me.
E-mail to Ralph Cooper

 
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