The Curtiss HS was a single-engined pusher patrol flying boat built for the United States Navy in the First World War. It grew from the twin-engined H-14 of late 1916, which was converted to one 200 hp Curtiss engine in 1917 as the HS-1 and then to a Liberty 12 engine as the HS-1L, which flew on 21 October 1917. The HS-2L had an extra bay and more span to carry heavier bombs, and the HS-3 had a new flat-sided hull. Curtiss built 675 and contractors nearly as many again. HS boats flew anti-submarine patrols from the United States, Canada and France from 1918, and stayed in Navy use until 1928; they were also widely flown as civil passenger and utility aircraft.
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675 by Curtiss themselves
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built for the United States Navy during World War I
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flying in this form on 21 October 1917
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was a single-engined patrol flying boat
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It remained in use with the US Navy until 1928
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675 by Curtiss themselves
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built for the United States Navy during World War I
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