MODEL | NAME/DESIGNATION | DATE | QTY. | DETAILS |
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F-101 | — | 1931 | 1 | Four-seat high-wing cabin monoplane with Wright R-760 engine, built primarily to demonstrate stainless steel spot welding techniques; did not fly well. Wings lengthened at some stage. |
F-3 | — | | | No data. Does not appear on registers. |
F-401 =
F-4(-Q2) | SEA BIRD (Gr. 2-540) | 1936 | 1 | Four-seat high-wing cabin monoplane amphibian with 225hp Jacobs L-5 engine, designed by Cecil de Ganahl; sold to Canadian mining company, then back to U. S. |
F-5 | SEA BIRD (ATC 680) | 1936 | 5 | All stainless-steel 4-place amphibian with 285hp Jacobs L-5 or 300hp L-6 engine; C. de Ganahl and James Reddig design. |
F-6 | SEABIRD | nd | | Single-engined five-seat flying boat version of F-5 amphibian aircraft. Existed? |
? | SEABIRD 75 | nd | | No data. Project? Typo for F-5? |
F-20 | — | 1938 | 0 | Project, no data. |
23 | Army XBT-12 | 1939 | 1 | Two-seat low-wing monoplane Army basic trainer with 450hp P&W R-985 engine; first all-stainless steel military airplane. |
23A | SOPHOMORE
(Army BT-12) | 1942 | 24 | Two-seat low-wing monoplane Army basic trainer. (*42-3708/3883 cancelled) |
? | R.A.T. | nd | | Radio-controlled airplane (photos exist) |
27 | Army A-1 | 1939 | | 20-ft. span small aerial gunnery target with 60 kW (80 hp) piston engine |
33 | — | 1941 | 1 | Two-seat low-wing trainer with 130hp Franklin 6AC engine, Alclad construction; open tandem cockpits. Designed by Robert W. Ayer. Registered as a Kaiser type. |
36 | Army XPQ-12 | 1941 | 1 | Ercoupe-like plywood target plane with 190hp Lycoming O-435 engine;, "confidential Army project" with manned capability. |
36 | Army YPQ-12-FL | 1941 | 8 | Pre-production batch. First one also found as YPQ-12A. Possibly all updated to PQ-12A standard later on. |
36 | Army XPQ-12A | 1941 | 1 | Modified nose gear. Perhaps other modifications. |
36 | Army YPQ-12A | 1942 | 30 | Likely the first few examples of the PQ-12A order. |
36B? | Army PQ-12A | 1942 | | Production batch. |
37 | Army XBQ-1 | 1943 | 1 | Mid-wing plywood target monoplane with two 225hp inline engine, a guided missile with provision for a pilot. |
37 | Army XBQ-1P | nd | | Variant with opposite engines, gear legs not jettisonable. |
37 | Army XBQ-2/A | 1943 | 1 | Improved version with two 280hp radial engines, jettisonable landing gear, and 2,000 lb. bomb load. |
39 | FURY (Army XA-39) | 1942 | 0 | Attack aircraft for USAAF MX-217, mock-up only. Some sources talk of a twin-engine design, which is not what the photo of the mock-up show (maybe an early alternate proposal?) |
? | "All-Wing Airplane" | 1943 | 0 | a.k.a. "Tailless Airplane". Flying wing cargo plane project appearing in several MIT and NACA studies, also refered to as the "Kaiser flying wing". Patent application done in Canada. |
? | Navy XBF-1 | 1944 | 0 | 200-ton bomber derivative of above for U. S. Navy. ("Kaiser Flying Wing") |
41 (H-10) | XH-10T TWIRLY BIRD | 1944 | 2* | Prototype helicopter to provide cargo ships with anti-sub protection, developed by B. Sznycer; listed as a Cargoes type (a government corporation subsidiary), but registered as a Kaiser; initially "for the British Government—with large-scale production to follow if they are successful." *Only one prototype identified, probably only one built. |
44 | Navy XBK-1 | 1944 | 0 | Projected light bomber; replaced by XBTK-1. |
44 | Navy XBTK-1 | 1945 | 5 | Single-seat torpedo bomber with one 2100hp P&W R-2800 radial engine; last one for static testing only. |
46/A | — | nd | 0 | Navy Dive Bomber proposal. |
47 | SQUIRT | 1947 | 0 | Carrier-born mixed-propulsion attack aircraft proposal ("The Two Squirt Thin Twin", described elsewhere as a naval fighter proposal) |
51 | KAISER-CRAFT | 1944 | 0 | All-metal private plane project with 200hp General Motors GM-250 engine, side-by-side seating for four ("Flying Chesterfield") |
52 | — | 1945 | 0 | co-axial three-place helicopter submitted for U.S. Navy Rescue & Utility Class, possibly a version of XH-10T |
53 | Y-2 AIRCAR * | 1945-46 | 1 | Four-seat low-wing cabin monoplane with 220hp Lycoming R-680 pusher engine; postwar attempt by Kaiser at modernized, air-scoopless Stearman-Hammond Y-1 (* as Kaiser-Hammond) |
? | — | 1947 | | Hughes XF-11 wings and tail built as subcontractor |
? | — | nd | | Martin B-57 wings built as subcontractor |
? | "733 Trainer" | nd | | No details; a version of French Morane MS.733? |
KD-161* | — | 195? | 0 | Light Observation Helicopter turbine proposal for joint military competition, developed jointly with Doman in the late 1950s. (* as Kaiser-Doman) |