Boeing 314 Clipper
Sign in to saveAlso known as Boeing Model 314, Boeing Clipper, Clipper, 314 Clipper
flying boat airliner
Key facts
- Type
- Flying boat airliner
- National origin
- United States
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Airplane Company
- Primary users
- Pan American World Airways British Overseas Airways Corporation , United States Navy
- Manufactured
- 1938 ( 1938 ) –1941 ( 1941 )
- Introduction date
- 1939 , (87 years ago) ( 1939 )
- First flight
- June 7, 1938 , (87 years ago) ( 1938-06-07 )
- Retired
- 1951 , (75 years ago) ( 1951 )
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Encyclopedic overview
The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the range to cross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. For its wing, Boeing re-used the design from the earlier XB-15 bomber prototype. Twelve Clippers were built, nine of which served with Pan Am. It was the first aircraft to carry a sitting American president, when in 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt flew from Miami to the Casablanca Conference in Morocco, via Trinidad, Brazil, and The Gambia.
Development
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