SPAD S.XIV

The SPAD S.XIV was a French single-seat biplane floatplane fighter built by SPAD and flown by the French Navy during the First World War. It was a development of the SPAD S.XII land fighter, powered by a Hispano-Suiza 8B engine of about 149 kilowatts, and was armed with a synchronised 7.7 mm Vickers machine gun and a 37 mm S.A.M.C. cannon. Forty were constructed and they served with the Aeronavale in 1918. The data published for the type give a wingspan of 9.80 metres, a length of 7.40 metres, a loaded weight of 1,060 kilograms and a maximum speed of about 205 kilometres per hour, making it a small but distinct seaplane branch of the company's family of fighters.