Flying boats of the First World War and the 1920s, built for the first long sea flights and for naval patrol before the large flying boats of the 1930s. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the aircraft a flying boat of the First World War or of the 1920s. It excludes the large flying boats of the later 1930s and the Second World War. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
All Early and Interwar Flying Boats
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Curtiss NC-4 (Wikipedia)
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The NC-4 is a Curtiss NC flying boat that was the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, albeit not non-stop.
Felixstowe F.2 (Wikipedia)
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The Felixstowe F.2 was a 1917 British flying boat class designed and developed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe during the First World War adapting a larger version of his superior Felixstowe F.1 hull design married with the larger Curtiss H-12 flying boat.
Dornier Do J Wal (Wikipedia)
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The Dornier Do J Wal ("whale") is a twin-engine German flying boat of the 1920s designed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke and manufactured in five countries.
Savoia-Marchetti S.55 - Wikipedia
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The Savoia-Marchetti S.55 is a twin-engine twin-hull monoplane flying boat designed and produced by the Italian aircraft manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti.
Short Singapore, Wikipedia
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The Short Singapore was a British multi-engined biplane flying boat built after the First World War.
Wikipedia: Dornier Do 18
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The Dornier Do 18 was a development of the Do 16 flying boat. It was developed for the Luftwaffe, but Deutsche Luft Hansa received five aircraft and used these for tests between the Azores and the North American continent in 1936 and on their mail route over the South Atlantic from 1937 to 1939.
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