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VMS Eve
VMS Eve's maiden flight
Role
Spaceship carrier / launcher
Type of aircraft
National origin
United States
Manufacturer
Scaled Composites
Designer
Robert Morgan, James Tighe[1][2]
First flight
21 December 2008
Primary user
Virgin Galactic
Number built
1
Developed from
White Knight One
Type
WhiteKnightTwo
Construction number
001
Registration
N348MS
Virgin MotherShip (VMS) Eve[3] (Tail number: N348MS[4]) is a carrier mothership for Virgin Galactic and launch platform for SpaceShipTwo-class Virgin SpaceShips.
WhiteKnightTwo at its rollout and christening ceremony, July 28, 2008
VMS Eve was built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic.
^US patent D612791, Morgan, Robert & Tighe, James, "U.S. Design Patent 612,719 for the ornamental design for an aircraft", issued 2010-03-30
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