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- 1. Aeromarine 39A Flight Magazine 1917-08-02 pg.784: Flight Magazine 1917-08-02· Public domain
what is it?
The Aeromarine 39 was an American two-seat training seaplane ordered by the US Navy in 1917 and built by the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company of Keyport, New Jersey. Of conventional biplane configuration and construction, the aircraft was designed so that its pontoons could be speedily detached and replaced with wheeled undercarriage for shore operations.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.3 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- Wingspan of 14.3 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- —
- number built
- 150
- role
- land or water-based trainer
- makers
- Aeromarine
- engines
- 1× Curtiss OXX-6 / Curtiss OXX / A-7
- length
- 9.3 m
- wingspan
- 14.3 m
- height
- 4 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,136 kg
- top speed
- 117 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 1,524 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2825635, Wikipedia: Aeromarine 39 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.