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| More information about the Vought OS2U KingFisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Layout of the fuselage was similar to that employed in the biplane scouts, as also was the use of a large single float plus underwing stabilizing floats. |
 | | On March 22, 1937, the Chance Vought Company (then of East Hartford, CT) received a contract for a single XOS2U-1, which was intended as a replacement for older Vought and Curtiss biplanes that were still serving the fleet. |
 | | After Vought delivered 158 improved 052U-2s with R-985-50 engines, and was working on 1,006 longerrange 052U-3s, the U.S. Naval Aircraft factory in Philadelphia, PA, built 300 052U-3s as '052N-1" (the Navy had built a single XOSN-1 biplane of its own design there in 1938; hence the "052N-1" designation). |
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