The Vickers Valentia was a 1920s British flying boat designed during the First World War.
Valentia | |
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Valentia (N126) at the Marine and Armament Experimental Establishment, Isle of Grain, April 1923.[1] | |
Role | Flying boat |
National origin | United Kingdom |
Manufacturer | Vickers-Armstrongs |
First flight | 5 Mar 1921 |
Introduction | 1921 |
Retired | 1924 |
Primary user | Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment |
Number built | 3 |
Three Valentia prototypes were built by the Vickers Company at their Barrow works (Walney Island perhaps), having been ordered in May 1918 as a potential replacement for the Felixstowe F.5. The hull was built by S.E.Saunders works at Cowes. The first of the three (Serial Number N124) first flew on 5 March 1921, when Stanley Cockerell began test-flying it over the Solent.[2] N124 was damaged on landing in June 1921 and was dismantled, the second N125 forced landed on its delivery flight on 15 March 1922[3] The third flying boat N126 was delivered in 1923 and used for trials until it was withdrawn from use in November 1924.
The name was later re-used for a transport aircraft, the Vickers Type 264 Valentia.
Data from Vickers Aircraft since 1908 [4]
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