Blackburn's unsuccessful Royal Navy prototype still generated overseas interest. Examples went to United States, Spanish, and Japanese naval customers. These exports gave Blackburn experience adapting a folding-wing torpedo aircraft for different operators even without a large British production order. A proposed ten-seat Swift Mk IV airliner also shows the company testing whether the same broad design lineage could support a civil transport role.
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Swift exports spread Blackburn's torpedo-aircraft experience
Swift derivatives reached the United States, Spanish, and Japanese navies, extending the influence of an aircraft the Royal Navy had not adopted.