Farman F.430

The Farman F.430 was a French light transport of the 1930s, designed and built by the Farman Aviation Works. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a tail-wheel undercarriage and two wing-mounted de Havilland Gipsy Major piston engines, and its enclosed cockpit and cabin held a pilot and five passengers. The prototype, registered F-ANBY, appeared in 1934. Two variants differed in their engines: the F.431 with 180 horsepower Renault Bengali-Six inverted engines, shown at the 1934 Paris aeronautical salon, and the F.432 with Farman radial engines. After the company was nationalised and absorbed into SNCAC, a version with retractable landing gear, the Centre 433, flew for the first time in December 1938. About seven aircraft were built in all; the F.430 and two F.431s served on an Air Service route between Paris and Biarritz, and the Spanish Republican Air Force also flew the type.