Saro Cloud

The Saro Cloud was a British passenger amphibian flying boat designed and built by Saunders-Roe as the A.19, an enlarged development of the Cutty Sark with room for a crew of two and eight passengers. Like the Cutty Sark it was a twin-engined monoplane with the engines mounted above the wing, which let operators choose between several engines, and the prototype first flew in July 1930 with two 300 horsepower Wright J-6 radials. Four aircraft went to private operators, including joy-riding and charter work and a European sales tour, while the Air Ministry ordered sixteen as the A.29 for training pilots and navigators at the Seaplane Training Squadron at Calshot. One Cloud was later fitted with a monospar wing and sponsons to test the design of the A.33. The last RAF training aircraft were withdrawn from service in July 1939.