__NOTOC__ The Potez 60 sometimes named the ''Sauterelle'' ("Grasshopper") is a French 1930s parasol-wing open-

cockpit A cockpit or flight deck is the area, on the front part of an aircraft, spacecraft, or submersible, from which a pilot controls the vehicle. The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the controls th ...

trainer. It had a wide-track

tailwheel landing gear Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft Landing gear, undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the Center of gravity of an aircraft, center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail ...

and is powered by a 45 kW (60 hp) Potez 3B uncowled

radial engine The radial engine is a reciprocating engine, reciprocating type internal combustion engine, internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinder (engine), cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel. ...

. An order for 250 was placed by the French government, but deliveries stopped after 155 aircraft were produced.

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* * 1930s French civil trainer aircraft 060 Parasol-wing aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1935 Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear {{aero-1930s-stub