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Originally Posted by Rbailey
The Van den Born F5 was a trimotor that would fit that description,but I don't know if it was a triplane.
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Interesting hint, the only reference I could find till now is from the NASM Directory of Airplanes
here. At least there exists another trimotor in France, unfortunately no date given.
Charles van den Born (1874-1958) was an early Belgian aviator, naturalized to France. Acquired Brevet n° 37 de l'Aéro-Club de France on March 8, 1910. He did early flying in Indochine, Saigon, Hong-Kong etc.
During the war he was entrusted with the foundation of the Belgian military aviation school (L'École militaire belge d'aviation). No mention about the trimotor named by the NASM.
As we are in the Belgian aviation history area, perhaps Toxisch can help?
Cheers
Kees