The Short S.11 Valetta was a 1930s British passenger monoplane designed and built by Short Brothers at Rochester for the Air Ministry, to allow a comparison between a floatplane or landplane and a flying boat. It had three Bristol Jupiter engines and room for two crew and 16 passengers, and it first flew as a floatplane on 21 May 1930. In July 1931 it left Rochester on an African survey flight flown by Sir Alan Cobham, returning in September after covering 12,300 miles. It was then converted to a landplane, tested by Imperial Airways and the Air Ministry, and finally used as an instructional aircraft by the Royal Air Force at RAF Halton.
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designed and built by Short Brothers at Rochester
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a 1930s British passenger monoplane
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designed and built by Short Brothers at Rochester
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a 1930s British passenger monoplane
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first flown on 21 May 1930
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a 1930s British passenger monoplane designed and built by Short Brothers at Rochester
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before being withdrawn from use
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