Latécoère 17

The Latécoère 17 was a French airliner built in 1923 for the routes that Latécoère flew between France and Morocco. The prototype carried the designation Latécoère 14, which reused the number of an unrelated earlier design that had been rejected. It was a conventional parasol-wing monoplane with an enclosed cabin for four passengers and an open cockpit for the pilot. It was the first commercially successful design of the company, and as production continued three different engines were fitted to it. A refined, longer-winged version, the Latécoère 25, later replaced it in production.