Royal Navy Aeroplane Deport and Experimental Construction Depot at Port Victoria
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British Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) station, Isle of Grain had been a seaplane station since about 1912.
Aeroplane repair from 1915; in 1916 began producing modified and original aircraft under PV, for Port Victoria, designation. Production included PV1, a Sopwith Baby, 1916; PV2, new-design anti-Zeppelin seaplane, 1916; PV4, pusher 2-seat fighter seaplane, 1917; PV5s, singe-seat fighter-bomber seaplanes, 1917-1918; PV7 and PV8, small biplanes for operation from destroyers (1917-1918); PV9, single seat fighter seaplane (1917-1918), and Grain Griffins, reconnaissance landplanes, 1918.
Sources
- Gunston, 1993, p243
- Gunston, 2005, p370
- SD232
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Grain
| Organization names | Royal Navy Aeroplane Deport and Experimental Construction Depot [at Port Victoria] (Port Victoria) |
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| Entity type | |
| Country | Great Britain |
| City | Port Victoria, Isle of Grain, North Kent, England |
| Affiliated with | British Royal Naval Air Service |
| Scope | |
| Started aero | 1915 |
| Ended aero | 1918 |
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