Aeromarine 39

The Aeromarine 39 is a two-seater biplane of school ordered in 1917 by the US Navy. Traditional biplane with shifted unequal wings and open stations out of tandem, it was designed so that the floats can be easily dismounted and replaced quickly by a terrestrial train.

Aeromarine 39-A

Initial model, whose 50 specimens were ordered by the US Navy with an engine Hall-Scott A-7 of 100 ch . La designation Aeromarine 39-A was adopted a posteriori, to distinguish this version from the Aeromarine 39-B . Bought 9.688 U$ by the Navy, they were resold to the surpluses 1.500 U$ in 1921 and 800 U$ in 1928. About thirty were found on the American civil register, often remotorized during their use by the US Navy (Driving Aeromarine, Beardmore, Hisso, Curtiss OX-5 or OXX-6,…)

Aeromarine 39-B

Takeoff from a liquid surface being hard, certain modifications were made to the Aeromarine 39 : Form wing and shutters modified to increase the bearing pressure, central float with small baloons of floating, surfaces vertical increased and driving Curtiss OXX-6. 150 Aeromarine 39-B were built for the US Navy.

Aeromarine 39-R

14 apparatuses (remotorized?) delivered in 1921.

Aeromarine Sportsman

Modification of the Aeromarine 39-B realized in 1917 by Vincent Burnelli for the civil market with an engine Aeromarine V-8 of 100 ch. Initialement equipped with a terrestrial train, single Sportsman was then assembled on floats and carried out the August 14th, 1919 the first delivery of mail on board a ship at sea, off the coasts of Virginia.

An embarked plane

The October 26th, 1922, on board a Aeromarine 39B , Lt. Cdr Godfrey deCourcelles Chevalier became the first pilot to be posed on the bridge of a ship moving, the US Langley (CV-1), off the coasts of Virginia. The apparatus was turned over to the landing, but the pilot left unscathed his apparatus. He will however not carry out the first takeoff catapulted since same the Langley, succumbing to his wounds on November 14th following after a new accident.

A survivor badly in point

Only the Aeromarine 39B survivor belongs to the collections of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, New York. This apparatus unfortunately was victim of two accidental fires (1966 and with beginning of the year 80), which saved only some elements of the plane.

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