Fairey Fremantle

The Fairey Fremantle was a large single-engine biplane seaplane of the mid-1920s, designed to Air Ministry specification 44/22 as a long-range reconnaissance aircraft and hoped to make the first flight around the world. Almost 70 feet in span, it had a deep rectangular fuselage of mahogany planking whose cabin held bunks, stores and a navigator's table, and a 650 hp Rolls-Royce Condor III driving the propeller through a reduction gear. Fuel was carried in the floats and in a conspicuous tank above the upper wing. It first flew on 28 November 1924 with Norman Macmillan, but three Douglas aircraft had already flown round the world, so only one Fremantle was built.