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Summary: Seversky P-35 aircraft Airplane blueprint for the Seversky, P-35 ... Aviation history and aircraft blueprints/plans. The P-35, one of the forerunners of the famous Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, was the first single-seat, all-metal pursuit plane with retractable landing gear and enclosed cockpit to go into regular service with the U.S. Army Air Corps. The first batch produced under designation P-35, counting over 70 aircraft served mostly with the USAAC 1st Pursuit Group in Selfridge Field, Michigan.
During 1939 Seversky paid a visit to Sweden, demonstrating it's fighter to the Swedish officials. This was the time of great unease in Europe and Sweden purchased directly 120 aircraft. This version, improved over the original P-35, received a factory designation EP-1. The first batch of 60 was delivered to Sweden during 1940, in complicated way through Finland and northern Lapland, and was designated J 9 by the Swedish Air Force.
The second order for 60 became a subject of U.S. arms export embargo. Produced by Seversky to the Swedish specification and taken over by the U.S.Army the aircraft was designated P-35A. Most were assigned to the 17th and 20th Pursuit Squadrons in the Philippines; all were lost in action early in the war, hopelessly outclassed by Japanese fighters. Most of the P-35As were quickly shot down in combat or else were destroyed on the ground.
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