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Gosport Aircraft Company

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Gosport G9 - a triplane three-engined flying boat for long distance cargo work or ten passengers and three crew, with a 113 foot wingspan. A commercial version of Porte's
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Gosport G5 - a twin-engined biplane flying boat with a 103 ft span and a length of 49 ft 3in, for two crew and six passengers or cargo based on the
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With the death of Porte in October 1919 none of the flying boats proposed were built, and by the middle of 1920 the company had closed.
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Gosport Mail - a six passenger luxury flying boat for long distance passenger, mail and goods-carrying based on the
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The hulls were built at the Camper and Nicholsons Gosport Yard and towed round to Northam to complete the assembly
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boat-builders. The company built a number of flying-boats for the British government including the hull for the
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Gosport Fire Fighter - a 10-seater flying boat designed to carry men and material to the scene of a
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Gosport G5a - a smaller variant of the G5 with a 97 ft 6in span and only 46 ft in length.
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Gosport Two-seater Touring Boat - a flying boat with a tail boom for the American market.
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Gosport Patrol Boat - a two-seater flying boat for use as a fast patrol or police boat.
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In December 1919 a number of larger flying-boats were proposed, designed by
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pusher biplane patrol flying boat, flying surfaces for sixty built for the
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which at the time was the largest flying-boat hull built in the world.
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Gosport G8 - a biplane flying boat for one pilot and three-passengers.
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in January 1919 after ten from an order of fifty delivered.
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Gosport Aircraft and Engineering Company (7 July 1920).
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General arrangement drawing of a Gosport G.5 side view.
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Gosport G8a - a biplane flying boat similar to the G8.
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tractor biplane patrol flying boat, cancelled by the
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom
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Index

Privately held company
Aerospace
Gosport
Hampshire
United Kingdom
Sir Charles Allom
Charles Ernest Nicholson
Volk
AFRAeS
John Cyril Porte
AFC
Flying boats
British
Gosport
First World War
Sir Charles Allom
Charles Ernest Nicholson
Camper and Nicholsons
Fairey Atalanta
FBA Type B
RNAS
Felixstowe F.5
RAF
First World War
Flight
forest fire
Felixstowe F.5
Norman Thompson N.T.4A
John Porte

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