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| - The Seversky P-35 was a fighter aircraft built in the United States by the Seversky Aircraft Company in the late 1930s. A contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, the P-35 was the first single-seat fighter in U.S. Army Air Corps to feature all-metal construction, retractable landing gear and an enclosed cockpit.
- The Seversky P-35 was an innovative aircraft for the United States Army Air Corps in that it was the first aircraft that they ordered that featured both a fully enclosed cockpit and a retractable undercarriage.
- The P-35 has its origins in the Seversky SEV-3 from 1933, which was modified into the BT-8 trainer aircraft. The BT-8 was replaced by the BT-9 quickly, as it was clearly not capable enough. So Seversky's chief designer Alexander Kartveli developed a twin seat derivative of the SEV-3, called SEV-2XP. The competed in an 1936 USAAC competition with other single seat aircraft, however, after a fatal crash, a single seat variant, called SEV-1XP was sent into the competition and defeated the Curtiss Model 75 Hawk.
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