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The Dayton-Wright T-4 Messenger was a light, single-seat reconnaissance aircraft built in the
United States by the
Dayton-Wright Company in 1918 in the hope of gaining a production contract from the
United States Army. It was a small conventional single-bay
biplane
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with a neatly streamlined fuselage and staggered, equal-span wings. The undercarriage was of fixed
tailskid type and the pilot sat in an open cockpit. Although diminutive, the design in fact started life as a scaled-''up'' version of the
Dayton-Wright Bug and shared a family resemblance to the
de Havilland DH.4 that Dayton-Wright was building under licence during
World War I. When the US Army was not interested in the aircraft, plans were made to sell it on the civil market, but these came to nothing and the prototype was the only example ever built.
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Messenger
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1910s United States military reconnaissance aircraft
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Aircraft first flown in 1918