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    space force of the French Armed Forces. Formed in 1909 as the Service Aéronautique, a service arm of the French Army, it became an independent military...
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    1918 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in November 1918: Liberation...
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    "Restauration et conservation du patrimoine aéronautique - MAPICA". www.mapica.org. Retrieved 5 March 2019. "Musee Aeronautique Presqu'ile Cote d'Amour - la Baule-Escoublac...
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    l’Association Genérale Aéronautique and the Comité National de l’Aviation Militaire; these 3 societies combined to form the Ligue Aéronautique de France, with...
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    War, the S.XIII had equipped virtually every fighter squadron of the Aéronautique Militaire. In addition, the United States Army Air Service also procured...
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    unit escadrille N 124 during the First World War (1914–1918). This escadrille of the Aéronautique Militaire was composed largely of American volunteer pilots...
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    CFRNA poster Flag of CFRNA Damien Accoulon, "Construire l’alliance aéronautique en Europe médiane (1919-1932)", 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire, n°152, 2021/4...
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    services and was in widespread but lacklustre service with the French Aéronautique Militaire. In December 1914, the Sopwith Aviation Company designed a...
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    par Paul Cartoux, L'Intransigeant from 1919/08/08, p.1, column 6. « Aéronautique : l'inutile exploit du sergent Godefroy » Archived 28 October 2020 at...
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    aéropostale) was a pioneering aviation company which operated from 1918 to 1933. It was founded in 1918 in Toulouse, France, as Société des lignes Latécoère, also...
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    the British Caudron company. The G.4 entered service with the French Aéronautique Militaire in November 1915. It was the first twin-engine aircraft in...
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    Île-de-France, 10 August 1918 Moved to: Ligny-en-Barrois, Lorraine, 25 August 1918 Moved to: Souilly, Lorraine, 21 September – 11 November 1918 Second Army Air...
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    Raoul Lufbery (category 1918 deaths)
    French Air Force (Aéronautique Militaire) as a pilot. Meanwhile, Lufbery joined the Foreign Legion and later transferred into the Aéronautique Militaire as...
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    SEA IV (category Aircraft first flown in 1918)
    Dassault-designed aircraft to reach production. On August 24, 1918, General Duval, commander of Aéronautique at General Headquarters foresaw the need for two variants...
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    Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). Retrieved: 12 September 2014. "History of Records: Andrew C. KEECH (USA)". Fédération Aéronautique Internationale...
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    Lafayette Escadrille, En L'air (1918) and One Man's War: The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille (1929). The former was the basis of the 1918 film A Romance of...
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    Commonwealth War Graves Commission "Memorial". Aérostèles, lieux de mémoire aéronautique. Retrieved 8 July 2016. "No. 34867". The London Gazette (Supplement)...
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  • Escadrille Spa.159 (category Squadrons of the French Service Aéronautique in World War I)
    January 1918 Lieutenant Georges Mazimann: 22 June 1918 - killed in action 20 July 1918 Lieutenant Henri Hay De Slade: 28 July 1918 - 11 November 1918 Lieutenant...
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    airfield was a temporary facility used by the French Aeronautique Militaire from early June 1918, most likely consisting of no more than a few tents,...
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    d'Aéronautique). In early 1916 the contemporary reconnaissance aircraft of the Aéronautique Militaire, such as the Caudron G.6, Morane-Saulnier T and Salmson-Moineau...
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    par Paul Cartoux, L'Intransigeant from 1919/08/08, p.1, column 6. « Aéronautique : l'inutile exploit du sergent Godefroy », Le Temps from 1919/08/09,...
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    security and ground defence. The airfield was created for the French Aeronautique Militaire in early 1916, on military grounds. On 18 April, the "Escadrille...
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    onto the standard army trailer of the day. Incredibly prolific (the Aéronautique Militaire alone operated 1,925 examples), it was also licence-produced...
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    (1920). L'Année Aéronautique: 1919-1920. Paris: Dunod. p. 19. Hirschauer, Louis; Dollfus, Charles, eds. (1921). L'Année Aéronautique: 1920-1921. Paris:...
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  • Marcel Riffard (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    representative at the Commission Aéronautique of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 Officier de la Légion d'honneur...
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  • within the hour. 26 June 2nd Lt. Henry H. Arnold, holder of Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) pilot certificate No. 29 and Military Aviator Certificate...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Salmson 2. Hirschauer, Louis; Dollfus, Charles, eds. (1920). L'Année Aéronautique: 1919-1920. Paris: Dunod. p. 33....
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    Frank Leaman Baylies (category 1918 deaths)
    1895—17 June 1918) was an American World War I flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories while flying in the French Aeronautique Militaire. Having...
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    and died without lawful heirs, it would have triggered Article 3 of the 1918 Franco-Monegasque Treaty, according to which the Principality of Monaco would...
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    he eventually volunteered for the French Army's aviation branch, the aéronautique militaire, in 1926. He commanded the Free French Air Forces from July...
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