| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | No Reg |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Loughead F-1 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Loughead F-1 |
| Aircraft Version: | Loughead F-1 |
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| Location | |
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| City / Seaplane Base: | Santa Barbara - West Beach Seaplane (closed)Map |
| Region / Country: | California, United States |
| Airport Codes: | None |
| Photo Date: | March 1918 to August 1918 |
| Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
| Photo ID: | 485473 |
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Built by the Loughead brothers to a US Navy specification. Lost out to Curtiss and the F-1 was rebuilt as a landplane, the F-1A. It crashed on the first leg of a transcontinental flight and was rebuilt as a flying boat once again. Used for joy flights in the summer of 1919 until sold to the owners of an amusement park on Catalina Island. However the F-1 remained on the beach at Santa Barbara until it succumbed to vandals. Loughead was a Scottish name pronounced Lockheed and that spelling was later adopted by the brothers. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland This photo was added on 9 August 2022, and has since been viewed 389 times. |