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The Felixstowe F.3 was a British First World War
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* Tasmania – two for commercial use, carrying six passengers or a ton (2,240 lb) of freight
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* Canadian Air Board
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* Portuguese Naval Aviation
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The First Trans-Canada Flight
Photographs including the Felixstowe F.3 flown by Leckie and Hobbs during October 1920 and their stop in Selkirk, Manitoba.
Fire Fighting with Aeroplanes
Film showing the use of flying boats, including a Felixstowe F.3 (G-CYBT) and seaplanes to help prevent forest fires in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, c.1922.
In the Wake of Captain Cook
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Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau film of a visit by F.3 flying boat (G-CYDI) to Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island, Canada, c.1922.
Felixstowe Flying-Boats
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flying boat
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, successor to the Felixstowe F.2
The Felixstowe F.2 was a 1917 British flying boat class designed and developed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe during the First World War adapting a larger version of his superior Felixstowe F. ...
designed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe.
Design and development
In February 1917, the first prototype of the Felixstowe F.3 was flown. This was a larger and heavier development of the Felixstowe F.2A, powered by two 320 hp (239 kW) Sunbeam Cossack engines.Bruce 16 December 1955, p.897. Large orders followed, with the production aircraft powered by Rolls-Royce Eagles. The F.3's larger size gave it greater range and a heavier bombload than the F2, but poorer speed and agility. Approximately 100 Felixstowe F.3s were produced before the end of the war, including 18 built by the Dockyard Constructional Unit at Malta.Thetford 1978, p.197.Operational history
The larger F.3, which was less popular with its crews than the more maneuverable F.2A, served in the Mediterranean as well as the North Sea. In 1920, the Canadian Air Board sponsored a project to conduct the first-ever Trans-Canada flight to determine the feasibility of such flights for future air mail and passenger service. The leg fromRivière du Loup
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and Major Hobbs in a Felixstowe F.3. Six F.3s served with the Canadian Air Force/Air Board between 1921 and 1923.John A Griffin fonds, 1 Canadian Air Division Heritage Office
On the 22 March 1921, a Felixstowe F.3 flying boat of the Portuguese Naval Aviation – crewed by the naval aviators Sacadura Cabral and Ortins de Bettencourt, naval navigator Gago Coutinho and aviation mechanic Roger Soubiran – performed the first flight between Mainland Portugal and Madeira
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Operators
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* Tasmania – two for commercial use, carrying six passengers or a ton (2,240 lb) of freight
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* Canadian Air Board
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* Portuguese Naval Aviation
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*Aeronáutica Naval
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*Royal Naval Air Service
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* Royal Air Force
** No. 232 Squadron RAF
** No. 234 Squadron RAF
** No. 238 Squadron RAF
** No. 249 Squadron RAF
**No. 261 Squadron RAF
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**No. 265 Squadron RAF
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**No. 267 Squadron RAF
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**No. 269 Squadron RAF
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World War I
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**No. 270 Squadron RAF
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No. 270 Squadron was formed in April 1919 from three flights (354, ...
**No. 271 Squadron RAF
No. 271 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was operational for two periods; a few brief months between 27 September 1918 and 9 December 1918 operating flying boats to protect shipping from German U-boats, and between 28 March 1940 and 1 December 19 ...
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* United States Navy
Specifications (F.3)
See also
* Canadian Vickers – Felixstowe F-III built for transatlantic attemptReferences
Further reading
* * * * Thetford, Owen. ''British Naval Aircraft since 1912''. London: Putnam, Fourth edition, 1978. .External links
The First Trans-Canada Flight
Photographs including the Felixstowe F.3 flown by Leckie and Hobbs during October 1920 and their stop in Selkirk, Manitoba.
Fire Fighting with Aeroplanes
Film showing the use of flying boats, including a Felixstowe F.3 (G-CYBT) and seaplanes to help prevent forest fires in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, c.1922.
In the Wake of Captain Cook
">Captain Cook">In the Wake of Captain Cook
Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau">Captain_Cook<_a><br>.html" ;"title="Captain Cook">In the Wake of Captain Cook
">Captain Cook">In the Wake of Captain Cook
Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau film of a visit by F.3 flying boat (G-CYDI) to Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island, Canada, c.1922.
Felixstowe Flying-Boats
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