Ludovic Arrachart [SEP] place of death
Ludovic Arrachart
Ludovic Arrachart (15 August 1897, Besançon - 24 May 1933, Maisons) was a French aviator.
His long-distance flights made him a pioneer of intercontinental aviation. He notably beat two world records : first flying a Breguet 19 from Étampes to Villa Cisneros in Africa in February 1925 and flying a Potez 28 from Paris to Basra in Iraq (in 1926, with his brother Paul) in June 1926.
He enlisted in the French Army at the outbreak of World War I, serving in
Arrachart Airport
Arrachart Airport is an airport located near Antsiranana (formerly Diego-Suárez) in Madagascar.
Created before the Second World War as "Camp Arrachart", a French military and civilian air facility, the airport was named after Ludovic Arrachart, a French aviator and pioneer of intercontinental flying, who made one of the first postal flights between France and Madagascar and died in an accident in 1933. The French air force ("Armée de l'air") left in 1973.