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built for the

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's () Naval Air Service () during the

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, the sole example of its type.Nowarra 1966, p.78Gray & Thetford 1962, p.450Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.145 It was one of only three armed aircraft built by the

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amongst a variety of trainer seaplanes that they had produced for the Navy during the course of the war. Number 947 was a two-bay biplane of conventional design, with twin pontoon undercarriage, and two open cockpits in tandem. It received the Naval classification CHFT, indicating an armed aircraft equipped with radio gear capable of both sending and receiving.Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.113 The design bore a resemblance to a pair of trainer seaplanes produced at Wilhelmshaven ( Nos 461–462) and to a design from

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( Nos 463–466), and all three designs could have been the work of the same designer or designers. The machine was evaluated by the seaplane testing unit (SVK – '' Seeflugzeug-Versuchskommando'') at

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at some point, but the records that have survived are somewhat contradictory. In any case, no further examples were constructed.

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