The Naval Aircraft Factory was an aircraft manufacturing plant owned and run by the United States Navy at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Secretary of the Navy approved its construction in July 1917, and the Navy established it in 1918 after the country entered the First World War. Army demand for aircraft had left private manufacturers uninterested in the Navy's much smaller orders, so the Navy decided to own a factory of its own to secure part of its supply, to gather cost data for its dealings with private builders, and to produce experimental designs under its direct control. It built flying boats such as the H-16 during that war, later concentrated on testing and evaluating aircraft and on parachutes, catapults and arresting gear, and returned to large-scale aircraft production in 1936. In 1942 it became the Naval Air Material Center, and it ended aircraft production when the Second World War ended in 1945.
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TD3N, later KD2N Gorgon II - jet-powered target drone
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TD2N, later KDN Gorgon - jet-powered target drone
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was a 1919 maritime patrol aircraft project undertaken by the Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF)
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was a 1918 maritime patrol aircraft built by the Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF)
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The Naval Aircraft Factory N2N was an American two-seat open-cockpit primary training biplane designed and built by the Naval Aircraft Factory.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory N3N is an American tandem-seat, open cockpit, primary training biplane aircraft built by the Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 1930s and early 1940s.
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PN-5 was the new designation assigned to F.5Ls built by the Naval Aircraft Factory after 1922, although identical aircraft built before then retained the F.5L designation.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory PT were two types of floatplanes built from surplus and spare parts by the United States Navy's Naval Aircraft Factory.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF) SA was one of several new NAF designs during 1918
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The Naval Aircraft Factory SBN was a United States three-seat mid-wing monoplane scout bomber/torpedo aircraft designed by the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation and built under license by the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory TDN was an early unmanned combat aerial vehicle - referred to at the time as an "assault drone" - developed by the United States Navy's Naval Aircraft Factory during the Second World War.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory TF (Tandem Fighter) was an American twin-engine flying-boat escort fighter first flown in October 1920.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory TG were a series of prototype seaplanes for gunnery training designed and built by the United States Navy's Naval Aircraft Factory.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory came up with a simple design driven by a 200 hp (150 kW) Lawrance J-1 air-cooled radial engine.
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trainer aircraft produced by the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1941
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developed by the Naval Aircraft Factory for the United States Navy during the late 1930s
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its parts were fabricated at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia
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Girders were fabricated at the Naval Aircraft Factory
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was established by the United States Navy in 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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a Navy-owned aircraft factory
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was established by the United States Navy in 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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in 1942 the NAF became the Naval Air Material Center
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to build a Navy-owned aircraft factory in order to assure a part of its aircraft supply
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