The Naval Aircraft Factory was the United States Navy's own aircraft manufacturing plant, set up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1918 after the Secretary of the Navy approved its construction in July 1917. The Navy wanted a factory it controlled for three reasons: to secure part of its aircraft supply when the Army's huge wartime orders left private builders uninterested in small Navy contracts, to gather cost data for dealings with private manufacturers, and to build experimental designs under its own roof. It began with an order for 50 H-16 patrol flying boats, flew its first H-16 in March 1918, and went on to build F-5-L flying boats and aircraft designed elsewhere. After the 1922 designation system took effect, the letter N marked every airframe design that came from the factory. From 1922 it concentrated on testing, evaluation and in-house designs such as the PN patrol boats, then returned to large-scale production in 1936 with the N3N trainer. It also made parachutes and catapults, and it ended aircraft production when the Second World War ended in 1945.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF) was established by the United States Navy in 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF) was established by the United States Navy in 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The NAF thus resumed large-scale aircraft production in 1936 on introduction of the N3N biplane trainer aircraft.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory N3N is an American tandem-seat, open cockpit, primary training biplane aircraft built by the Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 1930s and early 1940s.
Naval Aircraft Factory PN (Wikipedia)
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PN-5 was the new designation assigned to F.5Ls built by the Naval Aircraft Factory after 1922, although identical aircraft built before then retained the F.5L designation.
Naval Aircraft Factory TS (Wikipedia)
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The Naval Aircraft Factory came up with a simple design driven by a 200 hp (150 kW) Lawrance J-1 air-cooled radial engine.
Naval Aircraft Factory TDN (Wikipedia)
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The Naval Aircraft Factory TDN was an early unmanned combat aerial vehicle - referred to at the time as an "assault drone" - developed by the United States Navy's Naval Aircraft Factory during the Second World War.
Naval Aircraft Factory N2N (Wikipedia)
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The Naval Aircraft Factory N2N was an American two-seat open-cockpit primary training biplane designed and built by the Naval Aircraft Factory.
Naval Aircraft Factory SBN (Wikipedia)
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The Naval Aircraft Factory SBN was a United States three-seat mid-wing monoplane scout bomber/torpedo aircraft designed by the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation and built under license by the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Naval Aircraft Factory TF (Wikipedia)
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The Naval Aircraft Factory TF (Tandem Fighter) was an American twin-engine flying-boat escort fighter first flown in October 1920.
Naval Aircraft Factory TG (Wikipedia)
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The Naval Aircraft Factory TG were a series of prototype seaplanes for gunnery training designed and built by the United States Navy's Naval Aircraft Factory.
Naval Aircraft Factory PT (Wikipedia)
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The Naval Aircraft Factory PT were two types of floatplanes built from surplus and spare parts by the United States Navy's Naval Aircraft Factory.
Naval Aircraft Factory N-1 (Wikipedia)
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was a 1918 maritime patrol aircraft built by the Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF)
Naval Aircraft Factory SA (Wikipedia)
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The Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF) SA was one of several new NAF designs during 1918
Naval Aircraft Factory XN5N (Wikipedia)
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trainer aircraft produced by the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1941
Naval Aircraft Factory XOSN (Wikipedia)
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developed by the Naval Aircraft Factory for the United States Navy during the late 1930s
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was a 1919 maritime patrol aircraft project undertaken by the Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF)
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