Variants
- XSO3C-1
- Prototype, one built originally as a landplane and later modified as a floatplane.
- S03C-1
- Production variant, 141 built.
- S03C-1K
- SO3C-1 aircraft modified as target drones, some to the Royal Navy as the Queen Seamew I.
- SO3C-2
- Similar to SO3C-1 but witha arrester gear, landplane variant could be fitted with a ventral bomb rack, 200 built.
- SO3C-2C
- Lend-lease variant of the SO3C-2 with improved radio and 24V electrical system, for the Royal Navy as the Seamew I, 259 ordered but only about 59 were built.
- SO3C-3
- Reduced weight variant with detailed improvements and catapault operation ability removed, 39 built with a further 659 cancelled.
- SO3C-4
- Proposed variant of the SO3C-3 with arrester hook and catapault capable, not built.
- SO3C-4B
- Lend-lease variant of the SO3C-4 for the Royal Navy as the Seamew II, not built.
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