Then he was in charge of organising French civil aviation.

According to General Nudant, Saconney was the architect of the French military and civil aviation.

Baylies joined French aviation instead, in May 1917.

A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university) is also at the airport.

French aviation entered the War in 1939 without even the prototype of a bomber aeroplane capable of reaching Berlin and coming back.

This earned him immediate entry into French military aviation in August 1914, when the World War began.

Daladier remained in French military aviation after the war, rising to capitaine in 1929.

Both Bloch and Potez's names would, perhaps not surprisingly, become very influential on the future of French military aviation.

The graduation is after a training at the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university).

Despite his brief career, Lemartin is considered one the pioneers of French aviation.