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Seaplane Experimental Station
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The Seaplane Experimental Station at Felixstowe was a British aircraft design unit of the early part of the 20th Century.
As the name implies they came up with designs relating to seaplanes and flying boats. These were generally known by the Felixstowe name although they were built by aircraft manufacturers such as Short Brothers, Dick, Kerr & Co. and Phoenix Dynamo Co Ltd (the latter two forming part of English Electric in 1918-1919).
The unit was created soon after the outbreak of war, under the command of Lieutenant-Commander John Cyril Porte. Initially equipped with Curtiss flying boats, he improved their hull design, before developing the Felixstowe flying boats from those experiments. In 1924 aircraft design work was discontinued and it was renamed as the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment.
It moved to Helensburgh in Scotland during World War II by which point it came under RAE Farnborough and was part of the Ministry of Supply[1]
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