Caudron C.445 Goéland
The Caudron C.445 Goéland was a French six-seat light twin of wooden construction, the principal production model of the Goéland family that first appeared in 1934. The Armée de l'Air adopted it as the C.445M for communications and crew training, Air Bleu flew it on night mail routes, and it was exported to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Spain. Production continued under German occupation, with aircraft built for the Germans and others requisitioned, while further Goélands served the Vichy regime and French units operating from Britain. Production restarted after 1945, including 510 post-war C.445/3s, and Air France employed the type as a crew trainer for many years. The family's production totalled 1,702 aircraft, among them 114 C.445s and 404 C.445Ms; no Goéland survives today.