The Benoist XV, also called Type 15, was a small biplane flying boat built in the United States in 1915 in the hope to market it as an anti-submarine patrol aircraft for the British government, and also to carry paying passengers.

[1] The aircraft was a conventional biplane with equal-span unstaggered wings.

The engines were mounted above the cockpit beside each other and drove two pusher propellers.

[citation needed] Benoist built the type XV twin-engine flying boat with hopes to market it as an anti-submarine patrol aircraft for the British government.

A round-the-world publicity tour was scheduled and a merger with the Meissner's company to make a thousand examples were in the works when World War I tensions cancelled the efforts.