![]() ![]() The airplane was a red and white Caudron C.630 Simoun, c/n 7042.20. Any airplane type could be entered in the race as long as it had an official airworthiness certificate and a flight crew of two, or a single pilot with an autopilot.Īntoine de Saint Exupéry was accompanied by André Prévot as the navigator and flight engineer. The distance was estimated at 13,800 miles (22,209 kilometers). ![]() The race was sponsored by the Aéro-Club de France, which had offered a prize of ₣1,200,000 ( franc français), approximately £16,000 or $70,000, to the winner, providing the finishing time was less than 90 hours. (Succession de Saint-Exupéry d’Agay via Le Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace)Ģ9 December 1935: Early in the morning, Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger comte de Saint Exupéry took off from Aéroport de Paris–Le Bourget enroute to Saïgon, Cochin-China, as a participant in the long distance Paris-to-Saïgon “raid,” or air race. Antoine de Saint Exupéry with André Prévot and their Caudron C.630 Simoun, F-ANRY, Aéroport de Paris – Le Bourget 29 December 1935. ![]()
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