THE FIRST SPORTS AIRCRAFT OF THE AERO CLUB NAŠA KRILA CAUDRON C-27

In November 1922, the third produced copy of the Codron airplane received the official French registration F-AEIC. Registration number 922 was registered to the company M. Caudron from Ischia, i.e. to the company that manufactured the airplane. However, the airplane changed hands very quickly, namely, it was sold to M. Gervies from Paris. In the summer of 1923, M. Gervies’ company used the Codron C-27 to conduct aerial surveys of the marshes in the Skopje field for the needs of the government of the Kingdom of Serbia and Montenegro, with the aim of draining the marshes in order to combat malaria. After the surveys were completed, at the end of the summer of 1923, the airplane was offered for sale to the local authorities in Skopje. The General Board of the Aero Club in Skopje immediately showed interest and submitted a proposal to the Ministry of War to accept the offer. The Ministry of War adopted the proposal of the Aero Club to purchase from Marcel Chrétien, a representative of the Gervis company, a Caudron C-27 aircraft (with a 130 hp Clerget engine) and one spare engine. The aircraft was paid for 20,000 French francs, i.e. 75,000 dinars. This training aircraft was in excellent condition, the engine had not run for more than 12 hours. After acceptance, it was handed over to the General Board in Skopje in September 1923. The aircraft flew until August 1926, when it suffered an accident and was no longer repaired.