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The Port Victoria P.V.8 Eastchurch Kitten was a prototype British fighter aircraft of the First World War designed and built by the Port Victoria Marine Experimental Aircraft Depot on the Isle of Grain. It was a small and light biplane with a conventional wheeled undercarriage intended to operate from platforms on small ships but while it had good handling an unreliable and underpowered engine meant that the aircraft did not enter production only the one prototype being built.

The Port Victoria P.V.1

Made by Port Victoria Marine Experimental Aircraft Depot.

Height Main
157.48000000000002
Designer
G H Millar
Length Alt
4.76 m
Jet Or Prop
prop
Loaded Weight Main
586.0
Height Alt
1.58 m
Type Of Prop
two-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled
Loading Main
6
Power/mass Main
215.99999999999997
Power/mass Alt
Max Speed Main
82
Ceiling Main
14900.0
Number Built
1
Crew
1
Max Speed More
at 2
500 ft
Span Main
18
Area Main
106.0
Span Alt
5.78 m
Plane Or Copter?
Power Alt
26.0
Engine(prop)
ABC Gnat
Manufacturer
Status
First Flight
7
Loaded Weight Alt
266.0
Power Main
35 hp
Number Of Props
1
Guns
1
Empty Weight Alt
155.0
Length Main
15
Area Alt
9.85 m²
Similar Aircraft
*Port Victoria P.V.7*Martin KF-1
Max Speed Alt
5670.0
Empty Weight Main
340.0
Ceiling Alt
4
540 m
Category
Loading Alt
27

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