Henri Guillaumet
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Guillaumet was born in Bouy, Marne. He was a pioneer of French aviation in the Andes, the South Atlantic and the North Atlantic. He contributed to the opening up of numerous new routes and is regarded
Guillaumet's pilot's licence
Jean Chiappe
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Jean Baptiste Pascal Eugène Chiappe was a high-ranking French civil servant.
Henri Guillaumet
…After a number of south Atlantic crossings, he was appointed managing director of Air France. On 27 November 1940, while flying to Syria with Jean Chiappe, the new French High Commissioner to the Levant, his four-engined Farman F.220 NC.2234 airliner Le Verrier was shot down by an Italian fighter over the…
Chiappe in 1927