AD Production
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Produced Variants
Seaplane Type 1000 Twin float torpedo carrying biplane of pod-and-boom
design, with engines mounted at the front of both booms, as well as at the rear of the crew pod. It was the world's first
aircraft designed from scratch as a torpedo bomber, one of the three planned versions of the design. The other two were
a bomber and an aircraft armed with a recoilless Davis 12-pounder gun. Initially the designed to use Sunbeam Nubian powerplants,
but these were delayed and three 100 h.p. Hispano-Suiza used instead, though eventually 150 hp Sunbeam Nubian IIs of were installed in 1917
Scout Anti-Zeppelin
biplane fighter with a fuselage pod mounted on the upper wing. A twin-rudder tail was attached by four booms, and it was
provided with an extremely narrow-track undercarriage. Intended to carry a 2-pounder recoilless Davis Gun, but never fitted.
One 80 h.p. Gnome powerplant. Flying Boat Two seat patrol flying boat, featuring a biplane tail with twin rudders. The wings could be folded
forwards to facilitate shipboard stowage. One 150 h.p. Hispano-Suiza powerplant with pusher propeller.
Navyplane Two seat pusher floatplane biplane. One 150 h.p. Smith Static or 150 h.p. A.R.1
powerplant. Submarine Patrol Seaplane Two seat pusher floatplane.
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
1 aircraft ordered from
J. Samuel White & C0. Ltd., East Cowes, I.O.W., to contract C.P.10516/14. Delivered June 1916.
1000 1 7 aircraft ordered from J. Samuel White & C0. Ltd.,
East Cowes, I.O.W., to contract C.P.10516/15. Delivered June 1916, remainder cancelled. 1355-1357 3 1358 1 1359-1361 3 1359
virtually complete.
Total Production
2
6
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
2 aircraft ordered from Hewlett & Blondeau Ltd.,
Leagrave, Luton, Beds, to contract C.P.38552/15. 1452 - 1453 2 2 aircraft ordered from The Blackburn Aeroplane and
Motor Co. Ltd., Leeds, Yorks, to contract C.P.104662/15.
1536 - 1537 2
Total Production
4
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
2 aircraft ordered from Pemberton-Billing, Woolston,
Southampton, Hants, to contract C.P.109611/15. 1412 - 1413 2 10 aircraft ordered from Pemberton-Billing, Woolston,
Southampton, Hants, to contract AS.1449. (See note 1)
N1290 1
N1291 - N1294 4 N1295 - N1299 5 N1295
- N1299 delivered as spares 10
aircraft ordered from Pemberton-Billing, Woolston, Southampton, Hants, to contract AS.5388/17. Delivered between July
1917 and January 1918. N1520
- N1529 10 10 aircraft ordered from Pemberton-Billing, Woolston,
Southampton, Hants, to contracts AS.5388/17 & AS.20798. Delivered between January and April 1918 N1710 - N1719 10 50 aircraft ordered from Pemberton-Billing, Woolston,
Southampton, Hants, to contract AS.18936. 6 delivered in April 1918, remainder cancelled. N2450 - N2455 6 N2456 - N2499 44 N2462 - N2499 may have been to a separate contract
Total Production
34
48
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
2 aircraft ordered from The Supermarine Aviation Works,
Woolston, Southampton, Hants, to contract C.P.113726/16(2) . Only one built. 9095 - 9096 1 1 9096
not built 5 aircraft ordered from The
Supermarine Aviation Works, Woolston, Southampton, Hants. Cancelled. N1070 - N1074 5
Total Production
1
6
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
2 aircraft ordered from Short Brothers, Rochester, Kent.
Cancelled. N20 - N21 2 2 aircraft ordered from Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing
C. Ltd., Thornbury, Bradford, Yorks. Cancelled N22 - N23 2 2 aircraft ordered from Supermarine, Woolston, Southampton,
Hants. Cancelled N24 - N25 2
Total Production
6
Type
Delivered New
Canc'd
Total
Seaplane Type 1000
2
6
8
Scout
4
4
Flying Boat
34
48
82
Navyplane
1
6
7
Submarine Patrol Seaplane
6
6
41
66
107
Notes N1290
- N1299 originally ordered from J. Samuel White to contract AS.14609, but transferred to Pemberton-Billing under contract
AS.1449. Contracts AS.14491 and AS.18936 may also have applied.
Production References British Aeroplanes
1914-18, J.M. Bruce (Putnam, 1957) Royal Navy Aircraft Serials and Units, 1911-1919, R. Sturtivant
& G. Page (Air Britain, 1992) Supermarine Aircraft since 1914, C.F. Andrews and E.B. Morgan (Putnam,
1981)
