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The Burgess Model I also known as the Burgess I-Scout and the Coast Defense Hydroaeroplane was a United States reconnaissance seaplane built for the Aeronautical Division U.S. Signal Corps in 1913. It was of conventional Wright Model B design but with an engine mounted amidships in an enclosed fuselage driving by chains two large pusher propellers mounted on the interplane struts. The undercarriage consisted of twin pontoons. The single example built S.C. No.