Grandeur et servitude de l'aviation postale
Documentary (1935)
Starring:
Marcel Laporte (Narrator)
Marcel Reine (Himself)
Jean Mermoz (Himself)
Jean Baptiste Lucien Bossoutrot (Himself)
Describing the French mail service over South Atlantic now as a regular weekly basis.
Wibault 283
Reg. F-AMHO was built as Wibault 280.T12 c/n 5 ; later modified as Wibault 283.T12.
Reg. F-ANBN Wibault 283.T12 c/n 17.
Potez 621
Reg. F-ANQO Potez 621 c/n 4028.9.
Blériot 5190
Reg. F-ANLE Blériot 5190 c/n 1 Santos-Dumont of Air France. She had made 38 crossings of the South Atlantic (22 of the 42 done in 1935, the 20 others being flown by the Latécoère 301 Ville de Buenos Aires (1); Farman 220 Centaure (7) and the Latécoère 300 Croix du Sud (12)).
Latécoère 28.1
Reg. F-AJOV Laté28.1 c/n 916
Reg. F-AJLN 28.1 c/n 914
Reg. F-AJIO Vent de Sable 28.1 c/n 903
Breguet Br.393T
Reg. F-ANEK Breguet Br.393T gaviota (Spanish for : seagull) c/n 4 of Air France.
Potez 25
Reg. F-AJZS Potez 25 c/n 2036. In 1932, she was so badly hit by hail that she was not put back into service until the second half of 1936!
Reg. F-AJDY Potez 25 c/n 1521 one of the first two bought in 1928 by Compagnie Générale Aéropostale.
Mermoz was at her controls for the first commercial crossing of the Andes by a Potez 25 on 15 July 1929 with Guillaumet seated on the mail bags. Here on one of her last crossing as Potez 62 replaced the Potez 25 at summer 1936. In 1938, F-AJDY became LV-JFA, purchased by an individual. In 1967, LV-JFA was still on the Argentinian registry !
Latécoère 28.3
Latécoère 301
Léopold Gimié in front of the Latécoère 301 Orion (Marignane December 1935), later christened Ville de Buenos Aires
Reg. F-AOIK Latécoère 301 c/n 1016.01 Ville de Buenos Aires. Vanished in very bad weather during its fourth Atlantic crossing (10 February 1936).
Couzinet 71
Reg. F-AMBV Couzinet 71 n° 01 ARC-en-Ciel N°6.
Farman F.220
Reg. F-ANLG Farman F.220 Le Centaure of Air France.
Blériot 5190
Reg. F-ANLE Blériot 5190 c/n 1 now on regular weekly service (no more Blériot 5190 01 (01 for first prototype) as during the two proving flights done in fall 1934).
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