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trainer built in

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in the early 1920s. It was the first aircraft designed for CAMS by Raffaele Conflenti after he had been recruited by the company from his previous job at Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia (SIAI). It was a conventional design for the era featuring a two-bay equal-span unstaggered

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wing cellule. The

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was exhibited at the 1922 ''

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'' and evaluated the following year by the ''

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''. The type's favourable performance led to an order of 22 machines for the French military and an export order of seven for

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and four for

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. A single civil example was produced as the CAMS 30T with two extra passenger seats. In August 1924, Ernest Burri used this machine to break the world air speed record for a passenger-carrying seaplane.

Variants

* CAMS 30E - Production military flying-boat trainer. * CAMS 30T - Passenger version of the CAMS30E with two extra seats. CAMS 30T 1923 03

Operators

; * '' Aeronautique Maritime'' ; *

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Specifications (30E)

References

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* * * * * {{CAMS aircraft 1920s French military trainer aircraft Flying boats 30E Single-engined pusher aircraft Biplanes Aircraft first flown in 1922