Farman F.230

The Farman F.230 and its derivatives were a family of light touring aircraft built in France in the 1930s. They were conventional low-wing cantilever monoplanes with a fixed tailskid undercarriage and two open cockpits in tandem, and the thick-section wing was their distinguishing feature. Aircraft of the family held world records in their class for speed, altitude, duration and distance during the decade, and the F.356 model alone held 18 of them. On 12 January 1931 Marcel Lalouette and Jean de Permangle flew an F.231 from Istres to Villa Cisneros in West Africa, 2,700 kilometres in 22 hours, for a distance record. The F.231, with a 71 kilowatt Renault 4Pb engine, was built in 47 examples, and a Farman F.231 appears in the Tintin album Cigars of the Pharaoh.