 prize for a flight of over 200 metres on 21 November 1908, with an officially observed flight of .It was then exhibited at the Paris Aero Salon in December 1908 and at the Aero Show at Olympia in London in 1909.It was entered for the "Grande Semaine d'Aviation" in Reims in August 1909, but Esnault-Pelterie did not compete there owing to an injury to his hand.