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Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart on a trailer.

Date: between 1953 and 1957

U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.7213.011

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A Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart (BuNo 137634) on an unknown ship in Panama canal. This Sea Dart was transported to the Maryland Aviation Historical Society and later became part of the Smithsonian Institution collection and is in storage at the Paul Garber Restoration Facility in Suitland, Maryland, awaiting restoration.

Note: "Hold For National Air Museum" painted on the side.

Date: August 1958

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Convair XF2Y Sea Dart parked at Lindbergh Field in Convair's San Diego, California facility.

SDASM: 01_00083857

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Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart sitting on a ramp at Convair's San Diego, California facility at Lindbergh Field.

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Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart (BuNo 137634) landing on shore.

Date: between 1953 and 1957

U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.7213.012

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Drawings of carrier based version of the Convair F2Y Sea Dart.

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Convair F2Y-2

This version "had been envisaged as the definitive production version of the SeaDart. It had a single waterski, an area-ruled fuselage, plus a single afterburning Pratt and Whitney J-75 turbojet of 15,000 pounds of thrust."

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