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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 8:17 pm 
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There is a 12 cylinder Franklin for sale on eBay. What were they used on? He is advertising it for airboat users(!) hopefully it ends up in a good (aviation) home.
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Here is a (rather brief) wikipedia page on the Franklin O-805:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_O-805

Looks like it was intended for use in target drone aircraft.

NEAM has one on display. Maybe one of their folks will chime in with some relevant info...

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According to Bing they were intended for use on the Interstate drone aircraft in WWll.
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http://neam.org/index.php?option=com_co ... le&id=1073

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