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Overview of all Renault aviation activities

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Renault was the first automobile designer who designed and produced light aeroplane engines. In November 1907 an 8-cylinder engine was introduced on a car show. It was an air-cooled version, which for the time being, showed a record relation between weight and power. Aircraft constructors go an mass for it. From 1908 to 1914 eighteen aircraft constructors appeal to Renault for the building of some 49 different types of airplanes. Some of them: Farman, Bréguet en Caudron. The engines were solid, smoothly en efficient. Reason enough to equip two out of the five squadrons, which were founded in 1905, with Renault engines. As a consequence of changes during WW-I a new task was given to the air force: bombing and tracing. For this kind of missions more powerful engines were needed, therefore the Renault engines, built in mass-production for this task, produced at first 220 hp, then 300 hp and at the end of the war even 600 hp. After the war it had to be proved that aeroplanes also were able to transport people and postal items over long-distances. In 1919 the 300 hp Renault engines broke record after record; altitude, time and reliability. With the use of Bréguet aeroplanes the first overseas postal communication between France and Morocco was carried out in the same year. In 1922 a Farman-Goliath, with the same 300 hp Renault engine took off with no less than 4200 litre petrol and 300 litre oil on board. This aeroplane flew 34 hours, 14 minutes and 7 seconds non stop in large circles around Le-Bourget airport, and in 1928 Jean Mermoz flies over the Andes Mountains with a Latécoère, also supplied with a Renault engine. In 1930 Renault buys the aeroplane constructor Caudron. Three years later the Airline Companies Air France (with Renault as shareholder) and Air Blue see the light of day. Both companies use Caudron-Renault Simoun planes, designed by Marcel Riffard. The trading partnership Renault-Avion has been founded in 1935. The Caudron-Renault was a refined and elegant aeroplane. Great pilots of this period were Raymond Delmotte, Hélène Boucher and Maurice Arnour; they all shine on board of their plane. After the war Renault carries on with the motorization of aeroplanes, such as the Fouga and Morane-Saulnier machines. In the mid-nineties Renault Sport cooperates with Aerospatiale and is using the knowledge of formula I engines for the production of light aircraft, which have a capacity that varies from 180 till 300 hp four-cylinders.

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1910 Farman Renault MF7	1911 Farman Renault F11	1915 Farman Renault MF11	Lioré et Olivier Le0 H-133
1915 Farman Renault	1916 Breguet Michelin type B2	1916 Breguet Renault BR14 12 Fcx	1918 Breguet BR17
+/- 1920 Farman Goliath	1921 Latécoère Late 8	1922 Breguet Renault BR19	1922 Breguet Renault 19
1923 Latécoère Late 14	1923 Farman Renault F70	1924 Latécoère Late 14-2	Latécoère Late 17
1927 Latécoère Late 26	1929 Latécoère Late 25	Latécoère Late 28	1930 Latécoère L28 Renault 127b
1931 Caudron C232	1931 Caudron C272	1932 Caudron R300	1932 Caudron C360
1933 Caudron C282 Phalène	1933 Caudron C362	1933 Caudron C366	1933 De Stampe SV-4
1934 Caudron C400/C401 Phalène	1934 Caudron C410 Phalène	1934 Caudron C430	1934 Caudron C450
1934 Caudron C460	1934 Caudron C480	1934 Caudron C490	1934 Caudron C500
1934 Caudron C510 Pélican (4Pei Bengali)	1934 Caudron C520	1934 Caudron C530 Rafale (4Pei Bengali)	1935 Caudron C440/C441 Goéland
1935 Caudron C560	1935 Caudron C561	1935 Caudron C580/C581	1935 Caudron C600
1936 Caudron C275	Caudron C286/9 Phalène (Bengali)	1936 Caudron C444/C445/C448 Goéland	1936 Caudron C461
1936 Caudron C630	1936 Caudron C635 Simoun	1936 Caudron C640	1936 Caudron C680/C685/C690
1936 Caudron C710	1936 Caudron C712	1936 Caudron C730	Caudron C714 C1 Cyclone (12R 03)
1937 Caudron C714 cyclone	1937 Caudron C850	1938 Caudron C760	1938 Caudron C860
1938 Caudron C870	1938 Caudron C880	1939 Caudron C770	1939 Caudron C900
1939 Caudron C910	1940 Caudron C449/C449-1/C449-4 Goéland	1941 Caudron C920	1941 Caudron C960
1942 Caudron C800/C800A	1942 Caudron C810/C811	1942 Caudron C447 Goéland	1943 Caudron C446 Goéland
1942 Caudron C820	1949 Dassault MD 311 Flamant Snecma-Renault	1949 Dassault MD 312 Flamant Snecma-Renault	1949 Dassault MD 315 Flamant Snecma-Renault
1995 Renault Sport & Aerospatiale	1995 Aerospatiale Trinidad	1999 Aerospatiale Aeromag	2004 Renault & Boeing

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