Levasseur PL.15

The Levasseur PL.15 was a torpedo bomber seaplane developed in France in the early 1930s.

[1] It was a follow-on design to Levasseur's PL.14 that had, in turn, been developed from the carrier-based PL.7.

[2] While the PL.14 retained the PL.7's boat-like fuselage (developed as a safety feature for carrier-based aircraft ditching), the PL.15 was a purpose-built seaplane with an all-new, slender fuselage.

[1][3] The Aéronavale ordered 16 PL.15s for use aboard the seaplane tender Commandant Teste, and purchased and deployed the prototype as well.

[1][3] The PL.15s were reactivated with the outbreak of war in September 1939, and were used for anti-submarine patrol along France's Atlantic coast.