31. The machine was completed in July 1913, and made its maiden flight as a landplane on 14 July 1913. 32. To reduce costs, Benoist moved the company first to Type XVII landplane , both of which appeared in 1916. 33. Only one was built but it set several records in the under class both as a landplane and a floatplane. 34. After the war, the seaplane base was decommissioned, and the landplane base in Manston eventually became Kent International Airport. 35. Purchased by the Navy in landplane configuration on 13 July 1911, it was converted into a floatplane the following June. 36. By June 1921 it was a landplane again and competing in the Grand Prix d'A�ro-Club de France. 37. This machine was modified in 1915 as a seaplane trainer, just 1 ft ( 31 cm ) longer than the landplane . 38. The other alteration was to the main undercarriage, now mounted immediately below the engines and thus wide track for a landplane . 39. As advances in aviation overtook the flying boat concept, TEAL switched to landplane operations and the terminal was closed in 1956. 40. Although designed to serve either as a landplane or on floats, floats had not been fitted before the prototype was destroyed.
