Felixstowe F.2

Felixstowe F.2
Felixstowe F.2A in flight.
General information
Type	Military flying boat
National origin	United Kingdom
Manufacturer	S.E.Saunders Ltd Aircraft Manufacturing Co Ltd May, Harden & May
Designer	John Cyril Porte
Primary users	Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force United States Navy
Number built	175
History
Introduction date	1917
First flight	July 1916
Developed from	Felixstowe F.1 Curtiss H-12
Variants	Felixstowe F.3 Felixstowe F.5 Felixstowe F5L

The Felixstowe F.2 was a 1917 British flying boat class designed and developed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe during the First World War adapting a larger version of his superior Felixstowe F.1 hull design married with the larger Curtiss H-12 flying boat. The Felixstowe hull had superior water contacting attributes and became a key base technology in most seaplane designs thereafter.