Fairey N.9

The Fairey N.9, also known by its constructor's number F.127, was a single experimental floatplane built in 1917 to an Admiralty specification for a two-seat carrier-based seaplane. It was a compact biplane with unequal-span single-bay wings that folded back for shipboard stowage and trailing edge flaps on both wings, powered by a 200 hp Rolls-Royce Falcon. Its performance fell short of the requirement and no production followed, but it was used in June 1918 for the first catapult launches of a seaplane from a Royal Navy ship, HMS Slinger. It was sold to Norway in 1920 and crashed in 1928.