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Stearman NS-1
Trainers of the U.S. Navy
Official U.S. Navy photograph.
[See Wikipedia for a better version of this photo, said to
be from the NAS Pensacola Flight School, 1936.]




Grumman F3F-2
U.S. Navy single place fighter
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




N3N-3's in formation (primary seaplanes)
Taking off
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




A Navy Sea Eagle
The Boeing F4B-4 fighter
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




Curtiss Army A-25 attack bomber
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




Speedy Grumman XF5F Skyrocket
built for the U.S. Navy
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




NR-1 formation
(9 Ryan primary trainers)
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




Vultee Vengeance dive bomber
U.S. Army Air Forces designation V-72 (A-31)
Official U.S. Army Air Force photograph.




Ryan PT-22
Official U.S. Army Air Force photograph.




Stearman NS-1
U.S. Navy trainer
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




Vought-Sikorsky XS02U-1
U.S. Navy scout observation seaplane.
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




U.S. Navy Lockheed personnel transport plane.
[Model 10 Electra, built as XR2O-1 for the U.S. Secretary of the Navy.]
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




Brewster SB2A Buccaneer dive bomber.
Shown here as the British Royal Air Force version, called the Brewster Bermuda.
[U.S. Army Air Force version, A-34, was determined to be "unsuitable even
for training purposes," and withdrawn from service in 1944.]
Official British Royal Air Force photograph.




Vought-Sikorsky SB2U-1 [Vindicator]
U.S. Navy scout bomber.
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




Grumman F4F-3
Navy single place fighter
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




Consolidated Model 29 [PB2Y Coronado]
U.S. Navy patrol bomber
Official U.S. Navy photograph.




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