Pierre Levasseur (aircraft builder), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French aircraft builder
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Place of Birth: Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
About Pierre Levasseur (aircraft builder)
- Pierre Levasseur was a French aircraft and component maker.
- He set up his company Société Pierre Levasseur Aéronautique, always referred to simply as Levasseur in Paris in 1910, beginning by making propellers.
- In 1913 he began building aircraft designed by others.
- He then began to design his own, the majority of which were single-engine biplanes for French Naval Aviation.
- He also ran a flying school, where the chief pilot of his school was François Denhaut (1877–1952), notable for designing the first flying boat.
- Georges Abrial (1898 – 1970), an early French aerodynamicist, also worked with Levasseur to produce the Levasseur-Abrial A-1.
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