Boeing Model 2

Model 2
Model 3, construction number C-5
Role Trainer
Manufacturer Boeing
Designer Wong Tsu
First flight 15 November 1916
Primary users U.S. Navy
U.S. Army Air Service
Number built 56


The Boeing Model 2 and its derivatives were United States two-place training seaplanes, the first "all-Boeing" design and the company's first financial success.

Design and development

Pacific Aero-Products, the forerunner of the Boeing company, built its first all-original airplane, the Model C naval trainer. The first commercial airplanes Model C was designed by Chinese Wong Tsu, a MIT graduate. A total of 56 C-type trainers were built; 55 used twin pontoons. The Model C-1F had a single main pontoon and small auxiliary floats under each wing and was powered by a Curtiss OX-5 engine.

Operational history

The success of the Model C led to Boeing’s first military contract in April 1917 and prompted both its reincorporation as the Boeing Airplane Company and relocation from Lake Union, Washington to a former shipyard on the Duwamish River, also in Washington. The United States Navy bought 51 of the Model C trainers, including the C-1F, and the United States Army bought two landplane versions with side-by-side seating, designated the EA.

The final Model C was built for William Boeing and was called the C-700 (the last Navy plane had been Navy serial number 699). On March 3, 1919 Boeing and Eddie Hubbard flew the C-700 on the first international mail delivery, carrying 60 letters from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Seattle, Washington.

Variants

Operators

 United States

Specifications (Model 3)

Data from Boeing: History[2][3]

General characteristics

Performance

References

  1. ↑ Model C-1F with single pontoon. aerofiles.com (© The Boeing Comp, "one" any)
  2. ↑ Model C Trainer. The Boeing Company. Access date: 24 March 2007.
  3. ↑ Bowers, 1989, pg. 41

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