I have been working on the aircraft for several days, not getting very far. I might shelve this for now and go on to the cruisers, which might be much more fun.
Greenland Naval Air Service was brought into being in 1917. It started with observation balloons tethered to ships acting as spotters for the pre-dreadnought battleships fighting at Gallipoli in 1915. Then as aircraft became better Greenland acquired some squadrons of British and French aircraft that its pilots learnt to fly. Some of these pilots were from the Navy and the Squadron they were a part of became GNAS Squadron 1. The GNAS continued to use overseas aircraft while production facilities and infrastructure were built up in Greenland. The Greenlandian Government stepped in early and said there would only be one production facility for aircraft for all of the interested parties - The Milcom Aircraft Company. This was the Army, Navy, and Civilian Air Services. An early civil service was the mail and passenger run from Carthage to Utica. What used to take days, now took hours. The production facility would produce designs for aircraft that would be suitable for at least two of the three, then put the designs into production. This was supposed to stop one group from dictating to the rest what would be available to them. As happened when the RAF was set up and controlled the aircraft available to the Navy as well. The production facility was also under instructions to build aircraft under license if an aircraft type appeared from other countries that was far in advance of anything Greenland had. The Ford Tri-motor was an example of this.
Once the conversion of ships to aircraft carriers started taking place, it was noted that once those ships were completed their aircraft complements would also have had to be built and pilots trained to fly them. It was felt that this would need to amount to at least 300 aircraft of varying types. A staggering undertaking for the new facilities. The Air Force would also need at least 40 squadrons of mixed aircraft types, another 600 aircraft and pilots. The 300 for the carriers were only about two thirds of what the Navy needed as they would also need dedicated squadrons of aircraft for training and protection of its bases. Another 200 aircraft and pilots. The Civil Air Service would also need lots of aircraft to fly both internal and international routes to connect Greenlandian cities to each other and to the world. The sourcing of aircraft from overseas would need to be an ongoing project.
