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The Levasseur PL.14 was a
torpedo bomber
A torpedo bomber is a military aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with aerial torpedoes. Torpedo bombers came into existence just before the First World War almost as soon as aircraft were built that were capable of carrying the weight ...
seaplane developed in France in the late 1920s.
[Taylor 1989, 575] It was essentially similar to
Levasseur's
PL.7 carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft with the addition of pontoons. The design dispensed with the small underwing floats that formed part of the safety equipment of Levasseur's carrier-based aircraft of the period, but retained the boat-like fuselage.
[World Aircraft Information Files, File 900 Sheet 06] The wing was built to the 18.00-metre design originally developed for the PL.7 but ultimately rejected in favour of a shorter wing.
Thirty PL.14s were purchased to equip the seaplane base at
Berre.
When the PL.7s were grounded in 1931, PL.14s were equipped with wheeled undercarriage and put aboard the carrier
''Béarn'' in their place. Even after the PL.7s' return to service, four wheeled PL.14s remained aboard ''Béarn'' from 1935 to 1937.
Units using this aircraft
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Aéronavale
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Escadrille 7B2
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Specifications
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Aircraft first flown in 1929