The aerobatic team Captens was created in 2006 in honor of three people, in honor of Auguste Mudry, the man who created the CAP-10, the aircraft that they fly, and of the both pilots Montaine Mallet and Danil Héligoin of the French Connection Airshow aerobatic team.
It's in 1973 that Mudry sent Mallet, engineer, and Héligoin, former pilot of the Aerobatic Team of the French Air Force, in the USA for make the promotion of the CAP 10 against the Pitts. They will began their career in the suburb of New York before to quickly move for a best area for aerobatics the Flagler County, Florida. As the sales of the CAP 10 did not permit them to live, they decided to create their own aerobatic team in duo with the CAP 10, the French Connection Airshow, there programme was very different of the violent ones of the Pitts pilots, that was a very sweat, harmonious and graceful show in very tight formation, their signature was the passage called "French Connection", the both aircrafts were the one over the other in an extremely tight cockpit-to-cockpit formation and did few aerobatics in this formation. Their first airshow was the one of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1975, unknown of the organiser, their show was organised at the end of the airshow, when it remains only the great aviation lovers, and same if the public wasn't huge, their flight was immediatly noticed, they became quickly famous and mostly Daniel Héligoin with his snap roll just after he took off.
But each adenture has a end and the one of this married couple was of the most terrible, during a training flight the 27 May 2000, after 25 years of airshows, their both aeroplanes entred in collision, they were both killed, the new was very painful for Mudry.

And then, in december 2006, the American Adam Shaw, a former colleague of the couple Héligoin, and his wife, the French Marianne Marie-Shaw, created this aerobatic team of the name of Captens. And this always with a great pleasure that we see them on some local airshows for a very graceful show, certainly less impressive than the one of the Héligoin couple, but which give a great hommage at their mentors.