Farman F.70

The Farman F.70 was a French passenger and mail transport biplane of the 1920s, built by Farman Aviation Works as a smaller counterpart to its popular F.60 Goliath. It was an unequal-span two-bay biplane with a wooden fuselage and a Renault 12Fe V-12 piston engine in the nose. The pilot sat in an open cockpit behind the engine and a cabin behind him took four passengers or freight. Fitted with a Gnome-Rhone Jupiter radial engine the type became the F.73, and an experimental three-seat bomber version never entered production. Farman's own airline, Lignes Farman, flew five between Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels, Lignes Aeriennes Latecoere used it on mail and passenger routes in Morocco, Senegal and Algeria, and the Polish operator Aero bought five in 1925.