Suzanne Kohn (aviator)

Kohn was born in Paris to a wealthy Jewish family; one of four children, her sister Antoinette would later become a noted painter and French Resistance fighter.[1]

Suzanne Kohn was a French aviator.

In 1939, Kohn flew a Caudron C.600 Aiglon aircraft from Orly, France, to Madagascar.[2] She departed on 25 May, reached Elisabethville on 13 June, and Ivato on 19 June.[3] On her return flight she stopped in Egypt, Syria and Tripolitania, Libya.[4]

References
  1. "Antoinette Sasse. Rebelle, Résistante et Mécène /". www.lumieresenarts.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  2. "Caudron C.600 Aiglon - light touring aircraft". www.aviastar.org. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  3. Ferry, Vital (2005). Ciels impériaux africains, 1911-1940: les pionniers belges et français. Le gerfaut. p. 97.
  4. texte, Parti communiste français Auteur du (1939-05-26). "L'Humanité : journal socialiste quotidien". Retrieved 2017-02-18.
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