Ｃａｕｄｒｏｎ　Ｃ．６３０　Ｓｉｍｏｕｎ．
登録名“Ｆ－ＡＮＲＹ”
作家アントワーヌ・ド・サン＝テグジュペリの搭乗機。
その精巧な木製模型。宇津見エリセが父の形見として
保管していたもの。

テグジュペリは本機でパリ・サイゴン間の航空レースに
挑戦しリビア砂漠に墜落不時着した。その遭難時の体験
から小説『星の王子さま』の着想を得たと云われる。
根っからの飛行機好きであったテグジュペリは、
墜落後も借金を負ってまで、また新たな機体を購入した。
そんなふうに生涯に幾度も墜落や事故を経験した彼は、
２３歳では事故が原因となり婚約を破棄されている。
３５歳では砂漠に墜落し遊牧民ベドウィンに救助される
まで１日分の水で４日間を生き抜いた。
そして４４歳では軍の偵察任務として非武装の機体で
出撃するものの撃墜され、遂に帰らぬ人となった。
既に著名な小説家でありながら、
ひたすらに空を求めた、愛すべき飛行士だった。

「……まあ、そういう逸話もあるってこと。
　墜落した飛行機の模型なんてかっこ悪いけどさ、
　私は結構気に入っているんだ」

Caudron C. 630 Simoun.
Registered name "F-ANRY".

The aircraft that carried the author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, or rather, an intricate wooden model of that aircraft. Utsumi Erice kept this as a memento of her father.

It was this aircraft that Saint-Exupéry crashed in the Libyan desert during an air race from Paris to Saigon. It is said that his experience during this crash was what inspired him to write the novella "The Little Prince". Saint-Exupéry was a plane enthusiast, so much so he purchased yet another airplane even after his crash, going so as far as to incur considerable debt. Throughout his life, he had many crashes and accidents. One such accident at the age of twenty-three caused him to break off an engagement. At the age of thirty-five, when he crash landed in a desert, he managed to survive for four days on only one day's worth of water until he was rescued by a nomadic tribe called the Bedouin. Finally at the age of forty-four, he was assigned to a military scouting mission using an unarmed aircraft. He was shot down and finally met his demise.

While he was a well-known author, he was an aviator at heart, a man who continued to look up to the sky.

"...Well, at least that's how the legend goes. A model of a crashed airplane might be lame, but I'm actually attached to it."