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The Benoist XV, also called Type 15 and Type C, was a small biplane flying boat built by Benoist Aircraft in the United States in 1915, originally to compete for a transatlantic flight prize, and later marketed as an anti-submarine patrol aircraft for the British government, and also to carry paying passengers.

Design and development The aircraft was a conventional biplane with equal-span unstaggered wings. The engines were mounted above the cockpit beside each other and drove two pusher propellers. Accommodation for the pilot and five passengers was side by side in an open cockpit.

Operational history Benoist built the type XV twin-engine flying boat with hopes to market it as an anti-submarine patrol aircraft for the British government. A round-the-world publicity tour was scheduled and a merger with the Meissner's company to make a thousand examples were in the works when World War I tensions cancelled the efforts.

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See also Pusher aircraft

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