Central Centaur IVA O-BOTC at Haren/Evere airfield in the early twenties.

The Centaur was the main training aircraft in the civil pilot schools in the early twenties. O-BOTC was registered to the

Société d'Entreprises Générales Aéronautiques (SEGA) at Gosselies on 23 September 1921. This school was directed by WW1 ace Cdt. Fernand Jacquet.

Gaston Poffé is posing in Central Centaur IVA O-BOTC at Gosselies in January 1925. Unfortunately Poffé (31 Promotion)

was killed on 15 July 1926 in the crash of his Ansaldo A.300-4 O-55 at Hoegaarden.

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