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Model 2
Model 3, construction number C-5
Role Trainer
Manufacturer Boeing
Designer Wong Tsu
First flight 15 November 1916
Primary users U.S. Navy
U.S. Army Air Service
Number built 56

The Boeing Model 2 and its derivatives were United States two-place training seaplanes, the first "all-Boeing" design and the company's first financial success.

Design and development

Pacific Aero-Products, the forerunner of the Boeing company, built its first all-original airplane, the Model C naval trainer. A total of 56 C-type trainers were built; 55 used twin pontoons. The Model C-1F had a single main pontoon and small auxiliary floats under each wing and was powered by a Curtiss OX-5 engine.

Operational history

The success of the Model C led to Boeing’s first military contract in April 1917 and prompted both its reincorporation as the Boeing Airplane Company and relocation from Lake Union, Washington to a former shipyard on the Duwamish River, also in Washington. The United States Navy bought 51 of the Model C trainers, including the C-1F, and the United States Army bought two landplane versions with side-by-side seating, designated the EA.

The final Model C was built for William Boeing and was called the C-700 (the last Navy plane had been Navy serial number 699). On March 3, 1919 Boeing and Eddie Hubbard flew the C-700 on the first international mail delivery, carrying 60 letters from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Seattle, Washington.

Variants

  • Model 2 - original design (1 built)
    • Model C-1F[1] - Model 2 remanufactured with single pontoon
  • Model 3 - version with revised cabane struts (3 built)
  • Model 4 - aka EA landplane version for US Army (2 built)
  • Model 5 - revised Model 3 for US Navy (50 built)
    • Model C-700 - Model 5 outfitted as mailplane

Operators

 Vereinigte Staaten

Specifications (Model 3)

Data from Boeing: History[2][3]

General characteristics

  • Crew: 2

Performance

References

  1. ^ Model C-1F with single pontoon. aerofiles.com (© The Boeing Company) [1]
  2. ^ Model C Trainer. The Boeing Company.[2] Access date: 24 March 2007.
  3. ^ Bowers, 1989, pg. 41
  • Bowers, Peter M. Boeing aircraft since 1916. London: Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1989. ISBN 0-85177-804-6.
  • Pedigree of Champions: Boeing Since 1916, Third Edition. Seattle, WA: The Boeing Company, 1969.

See also

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