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How Sud Aviation built the aircraft families that define its reputation

Sud Aviation coverage spans first-generation European passenger jets across 1 Airchive families, balancing active fleets with historically important retired types.

This manufacturer page clusters 1 current and historic jet families under a single lineage view so crawlers and readers can move from maker to family to variant without URL duplication or taxonomy drift.

Airchive groups Sud Aviation aircraft by family first, which keeps airliner lineage readable instead of scattering it across disconnected model pages.

Families

Programs in scope

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Sud Aviation Caravelle family

The rear-engined short-haul jetliner that gave Europe one of its most elegant first-generation passenger aircraft.

First flight

1955

Seating

80 to 140

Forum pulse

60

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Range band

1,800 nm

Notable operators

Air France · SAS · Swissair · Finnair

No manufacturer-wide editorial stories are attached yet. The manufacturer directory is still live as a lineage map across active and historical aircraft families.