The Wight Seaplane was a British twin-float seaplane produced by
J Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft). It was also known as the Admiralty Type 840.
Design and development
Designed by Howard T Wright and built by the aircraft department of the shipbuilding company
J Samuel White & Company Limited, the Wight Seaplane was a slightly smaller version (61 ft (18.59 m) span) of the
Wight Pusher Seaplane
The Wight Pusher Seaplane, or Navyplane, was a British twin-float patrol seaplane produced by John Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft).
Design and development
Designed by Howard T Wright, the Pusher Seaplane was an enlarged versio ...
. The aircraft was a conventional two-float seaplane with tandem open cockpits and a nose-mounted 225 hp (168 kW) Sunbeam engine. Fifty-two aircraft were built and delivered, and an extra 20 were produced as spares production being undertaken by Portholme Aviation and William Beardmore & Co., Ltd.
Operational history
The Wight Seaplane served with the
RNAS
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps t ...
at Dundee
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, being used for anti-submarine patrols between 1915 and 1917.
Operators
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Royal Navy
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Royal Naval Air Service
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Specifications (Seaplane)
See also
References
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Aircraft first flown in 1915