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Chatelain AC.5

1950s French aircraft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ65080572 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Chatelain AC-5 is a 1950s French two-seat homebuilt aircraft designed by Armand Chatelain.

Development

The AC-5 was a high-wing monoplane with a wing of all-wood construction and a fuselage made of steel tubes.

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The public source identifies “Chatelain AC.5” as 1950s French aircraft. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chatelain, 1950s and French.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 34-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chatelain, 1950s and French providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Chatelain AC.5” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.