Émile-Louis Letord, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Émile-Louis Letord

French aircraft manufacturer

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1880

Place of Birth: Meudon, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 28-Mar-1971

Profession: engineer, wheelwright, aircraft pilot, aerospace engineer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Émile Louis Letord, sometimes spelled Letort, (1880-1971) was a French industrialist and pioneer Aeroplane manufacturer who founded the Société d'Aviation Letord from the Letord and Niepce workshops at Meudon, near Paris.In 1909 Letord and Niepce built their first aircraft, a monoplane, at their workshops on rue de Paira at Meudon.
In 1910 they were commissioned to build a Farman type biplane by Colonel Dorand, director of the Service technique de l'aéronautique (STAé) at Chalais-Meudon.
Letord went on to build the Dorand AR.1 and 2 and the three-seater armed reconnaissance Letord 1.
Letord also undertook sub-contract work for major aircraft manufacturers such as Nieuport.
Some 1,500 aircraft were ordered by the Aéronautique Militaire between all the variants, with something like 300 actually produced before the end of the war. On 17 February 1930 a fire destroyed the workshops and aircraft at Meudon, these included a twin tri-motor engined Couzinet 20 and a Couzinet 27 Arc-en-ciel II.Letord is associated with around 40 patent applications for improvements to aircraft design between 1919 and 1953.
Some of the applications are shared with Marcel Letort, Camille Letort and Louis Béchereau.