Circa. 1909. An antique postcard entitled, ‘Aéroplane Delegrange’. Léon Delagrange was a pioneer French aviator. In 1907 he was one of the first to order an aircraft from Gabriel Voisin and on 7 January 1909 was awarded one of the first eight aviator’s certificates issued by the Aéro-Club de France. He set aviation world records in 1908 and 1909, but on 4 January 1910 he was killed when a wing of his Blériot XI monoplane failed at Croix d'Hins near Bordeaux.

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