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Re: North American NA 16-15?
The original NA-16 design was offered for export sales in five basic variants, the single seat fighter being the NA-16-5. Individual sales were then initially noted by an alphabetical suffix eg NA-16-4P, before being allocated a North American charge number for production. I don't recall ever seeing mention of any NA-16-x designation above 5.
Certainly North American agreed with your thoughts on its prospects, but no single-seater was built before the NA-50s, which Dan Hagedorn describes as a development of the NA-16-5. It would certainly have been a paper project in 1936, though not one that would have taken too long to realise. However, the quoted speed appears to be optimistic, as this would have probably been a fixed undercarriage design at this date. Either that, or we do need to slip the delivery dates a little.
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