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Two-seat training flying-boat for the French Navy. 20 built.
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1910s international military reconnaissance aircraft
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870:"THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT ON THE ELTA OF 1919"
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237:Danish Navy
176:covered in
158:Development
152:World War I
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