SO2C design modifications to SOC blueprints or diagram?

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I'm sure many are aware of the Curtiss SOC Seagull and later SO3C Seamew, but the SO2C is a mysterious thing.
All that I have found on the SO2C is that it was a one-off development from the SOC-3, but with a 5-Foot fuselage stretch and given a R-1340-35 powerplant (as opposed to the standard R-1340-18 that powered standard SOC Seagulls, or R-1340-22 for SOC-2s and later versions)
My search for any images to reference for design deviations from the standard SOC-3 has been unfruitful thus far, so I ask- can anyone here find anything else on the SO2C?
 
The XSO2C-1 or Curtiss Model 71C of 1937 had the changes you mentioned as well as flaps added on all wing panels. The sole prototype XSO2C-1 - BuNo 0950 - crashed at NAS Anacostia (Washington, DC) on 29 June 1941. The XSO2C-1 was then transferred to the aircraft mechanic school at NAS Jacksonville as an 'instructional airframe'. In reality, I suspect, the XS02C-1 remains would have been stripped for parts by the base's Assembly and Repair Department to provide components for local overhaul of standard Seagulls.

No drawings but a photo:
curt-xso2c1.jpg
 
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Was it only limited to BuNo 0950 for a Model 71C? Some of the information given makes it seem that they may have repeated something similar later but based on a Model 71E, though I'm uncertain of that
Either way, thank you for the data on the XSO2C-1.
 
Was it only limited to BuNo 0950 for a Model 71C? Some of the information given makes it seem that they may have repeated something similar later but based on a Model 71E, though I'm uncertain of that...

Do you mean similar to the XSO2C-1's extended fuselage? As far as I can tell, the Model 71E/SOC-3s had flaps only on their upper wing panels.
 
Yes, I am referring to a similar fuselage stretch or re-engining like the XSO2C-1 but with an airframe based off a Model 17E
 

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