The Latécoère 225 was an unusual single seat canard microlight amphibian, with a swept wing, and of pusher configuration.
Some of these numbers duplicated those of earlier aircraft, for example the Latécoère 300 was an early 1930s flying boat but a 1960s high voltage circuit breaker.
Just one of their diversifications produced an aircraft; the Latécoère 225 ultralight shares its number with a post-war four engine bomber project.
[2] The flat sided pod fuselage is attached to the underside of the boom, with a glazed, single seat cabin forming the blunt nose.
The Laté 225 has an unusual tricycle undercarriage; the nosewheel retracts conventionally but the mainwheels, housed in fairings and fuselage mounted on cantilever legs, hinge upwards for landings on water, when they act as lateral stabilisers.