TP 85 - Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III (1972-1999)

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Swedish military ELINT aircraft TP 85 (Caravelle). Photo Lars Henriksson, www.avrosys.nu
Another photo of the Swedish military TP 85 # 85172, now at the Air Force museum (Flygvapenmuseum) at Malmen near Linköping.
 
 
 
Caravelle - French air mail stamp from 1957 depicting the famous passenger aircraft
Caravelle. French stamp from 1957.
 
 
 
Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle passenger aircraft of Corse Air. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

A Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VI-N of Corse Air International at Basle/Mulhouse Airport in 1985. Photo from Eduard Marmet, Wikimedia Commons. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
 


The Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle was developed by the French aircraft builder SNCASE (Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques de Sud-Est, later Sud Aviation) for medium ranges. The specification, made official in October 1951, was written by Comité du Matériel Civil (the Civil Aircraft Committee). The project got strong response from the French aviation industry, which worked out twenty different designs. After studies and discussions, the Committee choose a proposal from SNCASE in September 1952. Two prototypes and two static airframes for fatigue testing were ordered by the French government in the summer next year.

The first prototype took to the air in May 1955, the second prototype about a year later. They were powered by two British Rolls-Royce Avon RA-26 Mk.522 turbojets.

SNCASE received the first commercial orders of the new aircraft from Air France and SAS (Scandinavian Airlines System) in 1956 and 1957. The first Caravelle’s were delivered to the purchasers in 1959. Totally 280 production aircraft in about ten different variations were built. The first with Rolls-Royce Avon engines, the last with Pratt & Whitney engines. Most variants could take up to 80 passengers. The production ceased in 1972.
 

  
 
 
 
Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle passenger aircraft of Sabenar. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

A Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VI-N carrying the colours of the Belgian Sabena airline. Photo from  Wikimedia Commons.
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