The Short Solent is a passenger flying boat that was produced by Short Brothers in the late 1940s. Le Short Solent est un hydravion à coque produit par Short Brothers à la fin des années 1940.
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Eventually, a post-war British Short Solent flying-boat formerly owned by Howard Hughes was located in California and substituted. La production dut se contenter d'un hydravion Short Solent anglais d'après guerre ayant appartenu auparavant à Howard Hughes et qui se trouvait en Californie.