Aeromarine 700
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| Model 700 | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Floatplane |
| National origin | United States of America |
| Manufacturer | Aeromarine |
| Primary user | US Navy |
| Number built | 2[1] |
| History | |
| First flight | 1917 |
The Aeromarine 700 was an early US Navy seaplane developed in 1917 to investigate the feasibility of using aircraft to launch torpedoes. The aircraft itself was a large biplane of conventional three-bay configuration equipped with two pontoons, powered by a 100 hp (75 kW) Aeromarine K-6. Only six examples were built (AS142-AS144, all of which were damaged early on, with parts of AS143 being used to repair AS440 of the 2nd batch, AS439-AS441.
