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Curtis SOC Seagull
Observation seaplanes are military aircraft with flotation devices allowing them to land on and take off from water. Their primary purpose was to observe and report enemy movements or to spot the fall of shot from naval artillery, but some were armed with machineguns or bombs. Their military usefulness extended from World War I through World War II. They were typically single-engine machines with catapult-launch capability and a crew of one, two or three. Most were designed to be carried aboard warships, but they also operated from seashore harbors.
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Observationseaplanes are military aircraft with flotation devices allowing them to land on and take off from water. Their primary purpose was to observe...
built between 1936 and 1944. The Navy designation was "Type Zero ObservationSeaplane" (零式水上観測機). In 1934, the Imperial Japanese Navy issued a specification...
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limitations of seaplane tenders, provisions were made for capital ships to carry, launch, and recover observationseaplanes. These seaplanes could scout...
The Curtiss SOC Seagull was an American single-engined scout observationseaplane, designed by Alexander Solla of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation for the...
wheeled, taildragger landing gear. The OS2U was the main shipboard observationseaplane used by the United States Navy during World War II, and 1,519 of...
long before being replaced by the Arado Ar 196, Germany's standard observationseaplane. While the fuselage and flotation gear of the He 114 were completely...
name First flown Number built Service Kawanishi N1K Kyofu Navy Fighter Seaplane Rex 1942 1532 IJN Kawanishi N1K1-J/N1K2-J Shiden Navy Land-Based Interceptor...
reports produced during an audit Curtiss SOC Seagull, a US Navy scout observationseaplane produced by Curtiss, first in service in 1935 Marine expeditionary...
nicknames. Fighters: Weather and meteorological names Carrier fighters and seaplane fighters: Wind names usually ending with pu or fu (風) Interceptors: Lightning...
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response to a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) requirement for an observationseaplane to be catapult-launched from cruisers. Designed by a team led by...
June 1942, following a US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics request for observationseaplane proposals. Curtiss submitted the Seahawk design on 1 August 1942...
Aichi E13A (Allied reporting name: "Jake") was a long-range reconnaissance seaplane used by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from 1941 to 1945. Numerically...
rear cockpit. These aircraft were initially designated DOS (Douglas ObservationSeaplane), but were redesignated O-5 in May 1924. The success of the DWC established...
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and the Lockheed P-3 Orion/CP-140 Aurora. Smaller ship-launched observationseaplanes were used from World War I through World War II. Unmanned aircraft...
similar to O2U-3 but with equipment changes O3U-1 87 built as observationseaplanes incorporating Grumman amphibious float O3U-2 29 built, strengthened...
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