Latécoère 32

The Latécoère 32 was a flying boat built in France in 1928 for use on Aéropostale's mail routes to North Africa.

Development
A strengthened and enlarged version of the Latécoère 23, it was a parasol-wing monoplane with sponsons for stability in the water and two engines mounted in tandem push-pull configuration on the wing.

Operational history
Put into service on the Marseilles-Algiers and Toulouse-Algiers routes, the aircraft proved most unreliable and were involved in a number of accidents. At the end of 1931, the five surviving examples were re-engined with Hispano Suiza 12Hbr engines and re-designated Latécoère 32-3, which persisted in service a little longer.

Eight Latécoère 32's were built with the following construction numbers (numéros d'usine) and registrations: -
 * no77 - F-AILN
 * no78 - F-AILU
 * no79 - F-AILT
 * no80 - F-AISN
 * no81 - F-AISO
 * no82 - F-AIRU
 * no84 - F-AITX
 * no85 - F-AJBK

Variants

 * Latécoère 32 - original version with Farman 12We engines.
 * Latécoère 32-3 - remotorised version with Hispano-Suiza 12Hbr engines.

Operators

 * Air France
 * Aéropostale