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General Aviation PJ
🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1933· air-sea rescue aircraft
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6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. General Aviation PJ-1 Arcturus in flight off Miami 1934: USCG· Public domain
- 2. General Aviation PJ-1: USCG· Public domain
- 3. 1934 USCG Air Station Cape May General Muster: USCG Historian's Office· Public domain
- 4. General Aviation PJ-1 Salem Air Station: USCG Historian's Office· Public domain
- 5. General Muster at Coast Guard Air Station Miami, Florida (cropped): USCG, not listed· Public domain
- 6. General Muster at Coast Guard Air Station Miami, Florida: USCG, not listed· Public domain
what is it?
The General Aviation PJ was a flying boat produced in the United States in the 1930s as a search-and-rescue aircraft for the Coast Guard. Five were built, with one converted to be a PJ-2 with engines in the other direction. The aircraft would land and take-off on water, but did have some wheels for when it was brought up on land from the water.
How to recognise it: 2 engines · 22.6 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
- First flew 93 years ago, in 1933.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 22.6 m: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,770 km: 10× Amsterdam to Brussels.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1933
- retired
- 1941
- status
- retired
- number built
- 5
- role
- air-sea rescue aircraft
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Fokker
- engines
- 2× Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp
- length
- 16.4 m
- wingspan
- 22.6 m
- height
- 4.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 5,090 kg
- top speed
- 208 km/h
- range
- 1,770 km
- ceiling
- 2,745 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3943472, Wikipedia: General Aviation PJ (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.