Naval Aircraft Factory N3N

WIX_Archive · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm **Posts:** 198

Originally posted by Mark Allen

This one will be difficult as WIX's own N3N expert I'm sure has seen em all, but I'll try to see if at least one image gets a ... "cool, I've not seen that one before" response. It'll be tough though :wink:

I photoshopped them as best I could as well. As clean and clear as I could get them.
Source National Museum of Naval Aviation, SDASM

Part 1 of 4

An N3N-1 trainer pictured taking off at Naval Reserve Aviation Base NRAB Oakland California

An N3N-1 trainer takes off from an unidentified airfield

An N3N-3 probably pictured on the ground at Naval Air Station NAS Pensacola Florida

An N3N-3 trainer assigned to the US Coast Guard pictured on the ground

An N3N-3 trainer assigned to Naval Air Facility NAF Annapolis Maryland for indoctrination of Naval Academy midshipmen pictured on the water

An N3N-3 trainer pictured in flight over the Pennsylvania countryside

An N3N-3 trainer pictured on the ground probably at Naval Reserve Air Base NRAB Oakland California

N3N NAS Corpus Cristi 1941

Greenbelt Aviation Corporations N3N at Hollister CA in March 1967

Ground personnel guide an N3N-3 trainer used at Naval Air Facility NAF Annapolis Maryland for a Naval Academy midshipmen orientation

Ground personnel prepare to launch an N3N-3 trainer at Naval Air Facility NAF Annapolis Maryland for a Naval Academy midshipmen orientation flight

WIX_Archive · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm **Posts:** 198

Part 2 of 4

View of an N3N-3 trainer on makeshift skis at Naval Reserve Aviation Base NRAB Minneapolis Minnesota

View of an N3N-3 trainer in flight near Naval Air Station NAS Anacostia

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-1

N3N-3 with Metalized fuselage

N3N-3 trainer assigned to Naval Air Facility NAF Annapolis Maryland for indoctrination of Naval Academy midshipmen pictured on a cart

N3N-3 trainer assigned to Naval Air Facility NAF Annapolis Maryland for indoctrination of Naval Academy midshipmen pictured on the water

N3N-3 "Yellow Peril"

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3

N3N-3 Fighting the fire on Mt Diablo in July 1961

WIX_Archive · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm **Posts:** 198

Part 3 of 4

A civilian N3N-3 trainer pictured on the ground at Ottumwa Iowa 1975

A civilian N3N-3 trainer pictured taxiing prior to a flight at Ottumwa Iowa

N3N-1 trainer assigned to VN-1D8 Training Squadron 1 Eighth Naval District on the water at Naval Air Station NAS Pensacola Florida

N3N-1 trainer assigned to VN-7D8 Training Squadron 7 Eighth Naval District is craned onto a cart at Naval Air Station NAS Pensacola Florida

N3N-3 trainer assigned to VN-1D8 Training Squadron 1 Eighth Naval District on the beach at Naval Air Station NAS Pensacola Florida

N3N-3 trainer assigned to VN-7D8 Training Squadron 7 Eighth Naval District is craned out of the water at Naval Air Station NAS Pensacola Florida

An N3N-1 assigned to flight test duties at Naval Air Station NAS Anacostia pictured on the ground

An N3N-1 trainer assinged to VN-2D8 Training Squadron 2 Eighth Naval District pictured at Naval Auxiliary Air Station NAAS Corry Field Florida

An N3N-1 trainer pictured on the ground probably at Naval Reserve Air Base NRAB Seattle Washington

WIX_Archive · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm **Posts:** 198

Part 4 of 4

N3N-1 "Yellow Peril" splashes through the waters of Pensacola Bay prior to commencing a training flight

N3N-3 trainers assigned to Naval Air Facility NAF Annapolis MD for indoctrination of Naval Academy midshipmen with engines running ready to commence launching

Students push N3N-1 trainers out of a hangar at Floyd Bennett Field Naval Air Station NAS NewYork

N3N-1 trainers assigned to VN-7D8 Training Squadron 7 Eighth Naval District lined upon the waterfront at Naval Air Station NAS Pensacola Florida

Wartime N3N production for Naval Air force in 1937

And a few nice LIFE images

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:30 pm

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! N3N overload!!!!!! NO I DONT HAVE ALL OF THEM!!!!!!

PIC #10 is our AIRPLANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drink3:

SaxMan · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2012 9:47 pm

Nice pics of NAF Annapolis. The Antenna array you see in the background of plane #35 is still there. The dome of the Maryland state capital is visible in the background next to the front right strut that goes to the float of plane Bureau number #4368. The spire of St. Anne's Church, located at Church Circle in Annapolis is visible just underneath the right horizontal stabilizer of plane 47. If you haven't visited Annapolis, you should. It is hands down the most beautiful state capital in the country.

Also like the pics at Floyd Bennett Field. I believe the hangars where these pics were taken are still intact. I know the NYPD Aviation Division uses one, the Coast Guard uses another, and IIRC, the Berlin Airlift Historical Society bases their C-54 and C-97 out of Floyd Bennett, too. Floyd Bennett Field Trivia: In the 1933 movie King Kong, the airplane that attack Kong are taking off from Floyd Bennett Field.

okav8r · **Joined:** Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:38 pm **Posts:** 3

Wow, sure would like to see all of those photos, but all I see is a banner that says something about not enough bandwidth

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7802

Sorry, old account I no longer use. That's a free account. The one I use now I pay for. I'll see if I can re-post those photos using my new account.

okav8r · **Joined:** Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:38 pm **Posts:** 3

Thanks, Mark.
I'm a recent N3N collector, so I'm eager to learn some of the history.

Mike
N45300

WIX_Archive · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm **Posts:** 198

Here's a batch of new ones to make up for the "Snafu". Source, Library of Congress archives.

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas Aug 1942

N3N Page Field, Parris Island, S.C. c 1942

AG pilot · **Joined:** Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:13 am **Posts:** 552

Terrific color slides, what detail!

Baldeagle · **Posted:** Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:26 pm

This was just posted on Facebook:

Some neat air-to-air footage of N3Ns doing inverted spins-

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N3Njeff · **Posted:** Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:45 pm

Baldeagle wrote:

This was just posted on Facebook:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wJ0Lie-D9g

Some neat air-to-air footage of N3Ns doing inverted spins-

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At 1:20 the narrator mentioned that the restriction of Navy aircraft had been lifted for inverted spin only for the N3N, anyone know why?

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:56 pm

Mark Allen M wrote:

Here's a batch of new ones to make up for the "Snafu". Source, Library of Congress archives.

Neat that the last pic that Ive seen but never noted until now that the engine breather cap has the Wright logo and not the NAF logo.
I should take a pic of my belt buckle some time............its has the NAF logo from a breather cap on it.

I wear it every day.
I will mention I have two other belt buckles but those have data plates on them.

The overhead shot looking down is a pair of N2S junk

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:59 pm

My contribution to a wonderful thread on a PERFECT airplane.

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