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Description
| Manufacturer: | Vought |
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| Base model: | OS2U | ||
| Designation: | OS2U | ||
| Version: | -2 | ||
| Nickname: | Kingfisher | ||
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | ||
| Designation Period: | 1935-1945 | ||
| Basic role: | Observation Scout | ||
Specifications
| Length: | 30' 1" | 9.1 m | |
| Height: | 12' 11" | 3.9 m | |
| Wingspan: | 36' 0" | 10.9 m | |
| Gross Weight: | 4,542 lb | 2,059 kg | |
Propulsion
| Powerplant: | Pratt & Whitney R-985-50 | ||
| Horsepower (each): | 450 | ||
Performance
| Max Speed: | 182 mph | 293 km/h | 158 kt |
| Ceiling: | 20,000 ft | 6,095 m | |
Known serial numbers
Recent comments by our visitors
| Lou Dorny, CDR, USN (ret.) , WA | When the seaplane tender LANGLEY (AV 3) sailed from Darwin in early February to load Army P 40s at Perth, she carried two of the Utility Unit OS2Us with her, and they were landed at Perth, subsequently serving with Patrol Wing TEN from Pelican Point on the Swan river. 06/08/2006 @ 12:47 [ref: 13473] |
| Stephanie Wainer Clemmons, NC | My grandfather's Flight Log Book shows him on a OS2U-2, Machine number 3107 on April 21, 1942- remarks being "transfer to Baltimore". 12/27/2004 @ 22:52 [ref: 8993] |
| CDR L. B. Dorny, USN (ret.) Seattle, WA | In 1941 as part of the Navy-wide effort to establish inshore patrol squadrons five OS2U-2s were shipped to the Asiatic Fleet. These were operated by the Utility Unit, Asiatic Fleet, and then incorporated into Patrol Wing TEN in December, 1941.
One of the five, numbered #8 in the Unit, was left behind at NAS Sangley Point when the Asiatic Fleet moved south ahead of the Japanese advance. #8 was destroyed by strafing on the water off Mariveles, Bataan, in early January. The other four, #7, #9, #10 & #11, served initially in USS HERON (AVP 2) running patrols over Balabac Straits between Palawan and British North Borneo. These four were evacuated with the Wing, one being loss in an operational accident at Ambon,the other three operating from Ambon, tenders HERON, LANGLEY (AV 3), and WILLIAM B. PRESTON (AVD 7), Darwin, and then Perth, Australia. Operations at Perth continued from March 1942 onward. More detail available to anyone who asks. If anyone has any information on these five Kingfishers between 1941 and April, 1942, please contact me. 04/12/2002 @ 15:47 [ref: 4702] |
| Philip Mercier Rumford, ME | As a radioman in the U.S. Navy in World War 2 while I was
stationed at Walker Cay in the Atlantic Ocean, I was able to get several rides in trhe Navy OS-2U Kingfisher but these were equipped with floats rather than wheels. One large float under the fuselage and two small outrigger floats. I wish you had a picture of one of these. 01/05/2002 @ 14:43 [ref: 3988] |
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