Caudron C.230

The Caudron C.230 was a sporting, touring and trainer aircraft produced in France in 1930. It was a conventional biplane with single-bay, unstaggered wings of equal span. The pilot and a single passenger sat in tandem open cockpits. It featured a wooden fuselage with plywood skin.^[1]

C.230
C.232 partly visible in a background, during the Challenge 1930 competition
Role	Touring
Manufacturer	Caudron
Designer	Paul Deville
First flight	1930
Number built	15
Variants	Caudron C.270

Fifteen examples were produced before the much improved and very successful Caudron C.270 Luciole series appeared.^[1]

Variants

Data from:^[1]

• C.230 - first production version with Salmson 7Ac radial engine (15 built)
• C.232 - version with Renault 4Pb engine (50 built)
  • C.232/2 - as C.232 with wheel brakes (3 built)
  • C.232/4 - as C.232/2 with improved equipment (7 built)
• C.233 - prototype for testing of Michel AM-16 engine, later re-engined with Salmson 7Ac, reverting to C.230 designation. (1 built)
• C.235 - version with Argus As 8R engine for French Air Ministry (Ministere de l'Air) tests (1 built)

Specifications (C.232)

Data from Aviafrance,^[1] Flight,^[2] All-Aero^[3]

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Capacity: 50 kg (110 lb) luggage
• Length: 7.87 m (25 ft 10 in)
• Wingspan: 11 m (36 ft 1 in)
• Wing area: 24 m² (260 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 420 kg (926 lb)
• Gross weight: 700 kg (1,543 lb)
• Fuel capacity: 85 L (22.5 US gal; 18.7 imp gal)
• Powerplant: 1 × Renault 4Pb 4-cylinder inverted air-cooled inline piston engine, 71 kW (95 hp)
• Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch wooden propeller

Performance

• Maximum speed: 165 km/h (103 mph, 89 kn)
• Cruise speed: 130 km/h (81 mph, 70 kn)
• Range: 500 km (310 mi, 270 nmi)
• Endurance: 4 hours
• Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,000 ft)
• Time to altitude: 4,300 m (14,100 ft) in 1 hour