Reportedly several (light) aircraft were designed and built in South Korea (Rep. of Korea). These included the Buwalho (correct spelling?) observation and liaison aircraft of the 1950s. The aircraft is exhibited in the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul. Also reported are the SX-1 single engine flying boat of around 1957 by the Rep. of Korea Naval Ship Yard and the twin engine Chin Hae flying boat of around 1953/1954. The SX-1 may have been a project only, but the Chin Hae was built and somewhat resembled the Grumman Widgeon.
Does anyone have details and/or data on these aircraft.
Thank you in advance,
Wout
By: J Boyle - 20th February 2009 at 18:12
When in doubt, find a copy of Jane’s All The Worlds Aircraft for that particular year…or the one after it first flew.
By: JoeB - 20th February 2009 at 17:53
Here’s a couple of photo’s of the SX-1, ‘Seohae’ which was a real plane.
from:
http://www.emuseum.go.kr/pages/portal/search/full.jsp?dbNoArr=3&docNo=00025109
writing on photo: Single engine flying boat (SX-1) test flight achieved June 14, 1954 Navy Capt Jo Gyeong-yeon.
Both pages give a summary of development, not detailed stats of the plane.
The May 2004 edition of the Korean language magazine “Aerospace and Defense” had an article on the early Korean a/c which also included naval a/c SX-3 ‘Jehae’ and SX-5 ‘Tonghae’, but I don’t have the article, just saw it referred to here:
http://www.wasco.co.kr/bbs/view.php?id=report&page=31&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=9&PHPSESSID=0c2ea22ea3f7dc967f611ac579a566f0
Here’s an English language page on the ‘Buhwal’ type a/c.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2894654
-ho means something like ‘number’, or ‘type’ when appended to the name of something like an a/c, tank, etc. The naval a/c would also be Seohaeho, etc. Transliterations of Korean words to latin letters have varied over time, and DPRK and ROK don’t use the same system now. I’m using the year 2000 ROK system.
Joe
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