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The Latécoère 28 was a successful French long-haul mail plane and passenger airliner of the 1930s. It was the main-stay of Air France’s predecessor Aéropostale in its efforts to establish intercontinental air mail services and support French colonialism and French cultural influence between the wars.[citation needed]Its pilots included famous poets and French men of letters such as Antoine de Saint Exupéry and Jean Mermoz as well as the usual veterans from World War I.