Wight Seaplane

Seaplane
Wight Type 840 on anti-submarine patrol 1915
Role	Biplane floatplane
Manufacturer	J Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft)
Designer	Howard T Wright
Introduction	1915
Retired	1917
Primary user	Royal Naval Air Service
Number built	52

The Wight Seaplane was a British twin-float seaplane produced by J Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft). It was also known as the Admiralty Type 840.

Designed by Howard T Wright and built by the aircraft department of the shipbuilding company J Samuel White & Company Limited, the Wight Seaplane was a slightly smaller version (61 ft (18.59m) span) of the Wight Pusher Seaplane. The aircraft was a conventional two-float seaplane with tandem open cockpits and a nose mounted 225 hp (168 kW) Sunbeam engine. Fifty two aircraft were built and delivered and an extra 20 were produced as spares production being undertaken by Portholme Aviation and William Beardmore & Co., Ltd.

The Wight Seaplane served with the R.N.A.S. at Dundee Felixstowe, Scapa Flow and Gibraltar, being used for anti-submarine patrols between 1915 and 1917.

Data from The British Bomber since 1914

General characteristics

Performance

Armament

One 810 lb (370 kg) 14 inch torpedo or equivalent weight in bombs.

*The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985). Orbis Publishing. 

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