Antoinette (manufacturer)
Defunct French aircraft and engine manufacturer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Antoinette (disambiguation).
Antoinette was a French manufacturer of light petrol engines. Antoinette also became a pioneer-era builder of aeroplanes before World War I, most notably the record-breaking monoplanes flown by Hubert Latham and René Labouchère. Based in Puteaux, the Antoinette concern was in operation between 1903 and 1912. The company operated a flying school at Chalons for which it built one of the earliest flight simulators.
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