Seaplane Oddities from the U.S.

[World B4]

https://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/odd/index3.htmWhat seaplane was the avc-1 made for?

 

[Antonio]

The most probable candidate to me could be the Martin Model 170 Mars (Development contracted in 1938)

XPB2M-1 was announced on 8 November 1941

First flight: June 1942 but patrol bomber concept considered obsolete by this time.

 

[Yellow Palace]

https://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/odd/index3.htmWhat seaplane was the avc-1 made for?

More information here:
https://www.shipscribe.com/usnaux/AVC/AVC01.html
It was designed to handle the PBM, but was largely a proof of concept for a 50% larger catapult barge for the PBB.