The Latécoère 28-3 called "Comte de la Vaulx" was the seaplane variant of the Laté 28-1, it was flown by the famous french pilot of the interwar, Jean Mermoz. Mermoz did the first nonstop flight of the south Atlantic, he started from Saint-Louis, in Senegal and arrived 21 hours later at Natal in Brazil, between the 12 and the 13 may 1930. This flight was very difficult because of the very bad weather during all the travel, and mostly in the intertropical convergence zone, Mermoz was obliged to fly between 30 to 200m during the travel. He'll try again to fly in those conditions the 3 June 1930 but the "Comte de la Vaulx" will have an oil leak that will obliged the pilot to land at least of 1km of the African coast, the four crew members will be rescued by the aviso Phocée, one of the 6 aviso which served in the Société Général Aéropostale in case of an aeroplane had difficulties. The "Comte de la Vaulx", damaged at its left float, has sunk shortly after.

The Laté 28-3 n°909 was called "Comte de la Vaulx" in memory of the president of the Fédération Aéronautique International, Henry de la Vaulx, who just died in a tragical air crash during his International Air Tour done for the benefit of the FAI, he was also a good friend of Mermoz.

On this draw, consider that the dark part of the fuselage was red but as I use as reference an old photo and a bad quality picture, I thought that the colour was darkest (and I maybe shouldn't have coloured the yellow stripes...)
Notice the propeller spinner which was removed.

Characteristics:
First flight: 1927
Engine: Hispano-Suiza 12 Hbr of 500hp
Wingspan: 19.25 m / 63 ft 2 in
Lenght: 13.64 m / 44 ft 8 in
Weight: 3 215 kg /
Max. speed: 223 km/h
Max. ceiling: 5 200 m
Range: 4 685 km
Crew: 2