Pierre-Georges Latécoère (1883 to 1943) was a French pioneer of aeronautics. Born in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France, he studied at the Ecole Centrale Paris and, during the First World War, started a business in aeronautics. He directed plants that made planes and opened the first airlines that operated from France to Africa and South America. Latécoère was the founder of the aeronautical industry in Toulouse, and as the son of the owner of a sawmill in the Pyrenees he took an early interest in technology.
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Pierre-Georges Latécoère (French: [pjɛʁ ʒɔʁʒ latekɔɛʁ]; 1883-1943) was a French pioneer of aeronautics.
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Latécoère was the founder of the aeronautical industry in Toulouse.
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Founded by the aeronautics pioneer Pierre-Georges Latécoère during 1917, the company became well known in its first few decades for its range of seaplanes, such as the six-engined Latécoère 631.
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