Farman F.400

The Farman F 400 was a French three-seat cabin high-winged monoplane of the 1930s, designed and built by Farman. The 400 series was a revolution for its builder because it had a thin cantilever high wing with round edges that could be dismounted for storage and transport. Construction was mixed, with a steel tube fuselage and a wooden wing frame, both covered with plywood, and the fuel tanks of 200 litres sat inside the wings. The F 402 version used a Lorraine 5Pb five-cylinder radial engine of 110 horsepower, had the control stick hanging from the cockpit ceiling with a vertical steering wheel for the rudder, and reached 194 kilometres per hour. Variants from F.403 to F.406 used Farman, Renault and de Havilland engines, and the aircraft served on both sides in the Spanish Civil War.