Latécoère 26


The Latécoère 26 was a French monoplane mail plane designed and built by Latécoère.

Development

The Latécoère 26 was designed in the 1920s as a mail carrier, based on the earlier Latécoère 25 with a longer fuselage, and first flew in 1926. It had a parasol wing with a fixed tailskid landing gear. The main landing gear was both robust and wide-track, to enable the aircraft to land on unprepared surfaces. It was powered by a single nose-mounted Renault 12Ja piston engine, and had room for only two passengers and an open cockpit for the pilot.

Operational history

Most of the aircraft were operated by Aéropostale on North and West African mail routes; two aircraft were sold in Argentina.

Variants

;Laté 26
;Laté 26-2-R
;Laté 26-3
;Laté 26-3-R
;Laté 26-6
;Laté 26-6/2

Operators