Farman F.480 Alizé

The Farman F.480 Alizé was a single-engined two-seat parasol-wing monoplane built in France in the mid-1930s, designed in 1936 as a tourer and trainer though in practice it served almost entirely as a trainer. Its flat-sided fuselage seated two in open tandem cockpits with dual control from the outset, and it had a wooden structure, a parallel-chord wing and a fixed split-axle undercarriage. An uncowled Lorraine 5Pb five-cylinder radial of 82 kilowatts powered it to a maximum speed of 215 kilometres per hour. It first flew in May 1936 and was certified that December, with ten more already built approved the next day. All 12 Alizés went to the Spanish Republican government and served as trainers at three pilot schools by June 1937.