Vickers Valentia
{{For|the troop transport|Vickers Type 264 Valentia}}
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{{Infobox aircraft
|name=Valentia
|image=Vickers Valentia flying boat.jpg
|caption=Valentia (N126) at the Marine and Armament Experimental Establishment, Isle of Grain, April 1923.{{cite book|editor1-last=Chorlton|editor1-first=Martyn|title=Aeroplane Collectors' Archive: Golden Age of Flying-boats|date=2012|publisher=Kelsey Publishing Group, Cudham, Kent|isbn=978-1-907426-71-1|page=89}}
|type=Flying boat
|manufacturer=Vickers-Armstrongs
|national_origin=United Kingdom
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|first_flight=5 Mar 1921
|introduction=1921
|retired=1924
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|primary_user=Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment
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The Vickers Valentia was a 1920s British flying boat designed during the First World War.
History
Three Valentia prototypes were built by the Vickers Company at their Barrow works (Walney Island perhaps), having been ordered in May 1918 as a potential replacement for the Felixstowe F.5. The hull was built by S.E.Saunders works at Cowes. The first of the three (Serial Number N124) first flew on 5 March 1921, when Stanley Cockerell began test-flying it over the Solent."Air Ministry's New Flying Boat", The Times, 8 March 1921 N124 was damaged on landing in June 1921 and was dismantled, the second N125 forced landed on its delivery flight on 15 March 1922Wixey, Ken, "Flying Boats of the RAF: 1920s 'One-offs' ", FlyPast No. 106, Stamford, Lincs., U.K., May 1990, page 68. The third flying boat N126 was delivered in 1923 and used for trials until it was withdrawn from use in November 1924.
The name was later re-used for a transport aircraft, the Vickers Type 264 Valentia.
Specifications (Valentia)
File:Technical drawing of the Vickers Valentia flying boat.jpg
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See also
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- Canadian Vickers – Felixstowe F-III built for transatlantic attempt
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References
{{commons category|Vickers Valentia}}
{{reflist}}
- Andrews, C.F and Morgan, E.B. Vickers Aircraft since 1908. London:Putnam, 1988. {{ISBN|0-85177-815-1}}.
- London, Peter. British Flying Boats. Stroud, UK:Sutton Publishing, 2003. {{ISBN|0-7509-2695-3}}.
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Category:1920s British patrol aircraft