Wight Seaplane

J Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft) manufactured the Wight Seaplane, a British twin-float seaplane. The Admiralty Type 840 was another name for it.

The Design and creation of the Wight Seaplane was a little smaller variant (61 ft (18.59 m) span) of the Wight Pusher Seaplane designed by Howard T Wright and manufactured by the aircraft section of the shipbuilding business J Samuel White & business Limited. The plane was a two-float seaplane with tandem open cockpits and a 225 horsepower (168 kW) Sunbeam engine located in the nose. Fifty-two aircraft were built and delivered, with an additional 20 made as spares by Portholme Aviation and William Beardmore & Co., Ltd.

The Wight Seaplane It served and operated between 1915 and 1917, with the RNAS at Dundee Felixstowe, Scapa Flow, and Gibraltar, where it was deployed for anti-submarine operations.

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•  Image courtesy of M.Goodall and A.Tagg (deceased) authors of British Aircraft before the Great War Published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd.Atglen PA