![]() The airplane was a red and white Caudron C.630 Simoun, c/n 7042.20. Any airplane type could be entered in the race as long as it had an official airworthiness certificate and a flight crew of two, or a single pilot with an autopilot.Īntoine de Saint Exupéry was accompanied by André Prévot as the navigator and flight engineer. The distance was estimated at 13,800 miles (22,209 kilometers). The race was sponsored by the Aéro-Club de France, which had offered a prize of ₣1,200,000 ( franc français), approximately £16,000 or $70,000, to the winner, providing the finishing time was less than 90 hours. (Succession de Saint-Exupéry d’Agay via Le Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace)Ģ9 December 1935: Early in the morning, Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger comte de Saint Exupéry took off from Aéroport de Paris–Le Bourget enroute to Saïgon, Cochin-China, as a participant in the long distance Paris-to-Saïgon “raid,” or air race. Antoine de Saint Exupéry with André Prévot and their Caudron C.630 Simoun, F-ANRY, Aéroport de Paris – Le Bourget 29 December 1935. ![]()
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