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Naval Aircraft Factory F-5L flying boats. This aircraft was a variant of the Felixstowe F.5 that was designed by Commander John C. Porte of the Royal Navy, which were used by the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1925. The 1918 American version of this aircraft had Liberty engines, which were noted in its designation with the letter "L". 138 F-5Ls were produced by the United States Navy's Naval Aircraft Factory, 60 by Curtiss, and 30 by Canadian Aeroplanes of Toronto. |
A front view of a NAF F-5L flying boat. In April 1919, one of these flying boats, flown by Lieutenant H. B. Grow, set a flight endurance record of 20 hours and 19 minutes. |
United States Navy NAF F-5L flying boats with serial numbers 3617 and 3589. The F-5L flying boats were in USN service until 1928 and had serial numbers from 3559 to 3692, and in 1922 they were given the designation PN-5. |
NAF F-5L flying boat with serial number 3617. |
NAF F-5L flying boat with serial number 3589. |
A NAF F-5L flying boat flying over a destroyer smoke screen. |
These United States Navy flying boats have been identified, from left to right, by someone, as the Curtiss H-16, the Burgess N-9H, the Curtiss MF, and the Naval Aircraft Factory F-5L. |
American aviators with a NAF F-5L flying boat! |
More American flying boats aviators! |
A United States Navy NAF F-5L flying boat, with serial number 3606, at Naval Air Station Rockaway, on Long Island, New York, around 1919. |
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