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Type of aircraft
Flying Life Boat
Country U.S.
Date 1930
Enginetype 2 420 Hp Wasp
Fokker PJ-1/2 U.S.A.

Fokker PJ-1 Flying boat

Fokker PJ-1 Flying boat

Fokker PJ-2 of the US Coast Guard. This aircraft was rebuild from a PJ-1 by the Naval Aircraft Factory and had push propellers instead of normal ones
Flying boat


Fokker won a contest organised by the U.S. Coast Guard, for the development of a FLB (Flying Life Boat).

At that moment, the American Fokker company was already part of General Aviation Corporation who assigned this modelas GA-15, later renamed PJ-1 by the Coast Guard.

A crew of four had duty on these FLB's, it had two Wasp engines of 420 Hp each.

 

 

The first PJ-1 named PJ-2 after being rebuild from a PJ-1 by the Naval Aircraft Factory with push propellers instead of normal ones.

The PJ FLB's were the last Fokkers to be build in the U.S. till 1958. In 1935 General Aviation was changed in North American Aviation (now called Rockwell International).