An air transport mode using powered fixed-wing aircraft able to take off from and land on open water instead of a paved runway. Frenchman Henri Fabre flew the first successful seaplane, his Gnome Omega-powered Fabre Hydravion, on 28 March 1910, and flying boats went on to dominate long-distance international aviation through the 1930s and 1940s, carrying passengers and mail across oceans and into regions with no land-based airport at all. The mode declined sharply after the Second World War as paved runways spread worldwide and conventional land-based airliners proved faster and cheaper to operate, though seaplanes still serve remote coastal and island communities and specialized charter routes today.
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A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.
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Seaplanes are usually divided into two categories based on their technological characteristics: floatplanes and flying boats; the latter are generally far larger and can carry far more.
History
Aviation's earliest pioneers looked to bodies of water to serve as runways for take-offs and landings, a practice that began in earnest in the 1910s.
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A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.
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was an American pusher biplane flying-boat built by Boeing between 1928 and 1929
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The Supermarine Sea Lion II was a British racing flying boat
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The Dornier Do E was a small German flying boat of 1924, designed for reconnaissance missions.
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The Dornier Do 26 was an all-metal gull-winged flying boat produced before and during World War II by Dornier Flugzeugwerke of Germany.
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The Northrop N-3PB Nomad was a single-engined American floatplane of the 1940s.
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The Boeing B-1 (company designation Model 6) is a small biplane flying boat designed by William Boeing
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The Boeing Model 320 was a late 1930s project by Boeing for a giant maritime patrol flying boat
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The Boeing-Canada A-213 Totem was a Canadian single-engine pusher monoplane flying boat
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piggy-back long-range seaplane and flying boat combination
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light commercial amphibious aircraft
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is a British civilian flying boat designed and originally produced by Short Brothers
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British long-range, four-engined flying boat
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civilian biplane airliner flying boat
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flying boat aircraft intended for trans-Pacific service
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a giant cargo transport seaplane
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is a retired large, four-engined cargo transport flying boat designed and built by the Martin Company for the United States Navy
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is a twin-engined maritime patrol flying boat designed and built by the American aircraft manufacturer Glenn L. Martin Company
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was an experimental strategic bomber flying boat built by the Glenn L. Martin Company for the United States Navy
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The design was initiated to meet a requirement of the United States Navy for an anti-submarine warfare flying boat.
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planned as a general reconnaissance aircraft for military service
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designed as a long range maritime patrol bomber for RAF Coastal Command
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a British four-engined 15-seat biplane luxury flying boat airliner
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a British two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying folding-wing seaplane
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the procurement of a military variant of the Short S.8 Calcutta
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was a British racing seaplane of the 1920s
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long-range patrol flying boat to work in support of the Fleet
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General Purpose Open Sea Patrol Flying Boat
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a single-engined two-seat monoplane built by Short Brothers
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the first British all-metal flying boat
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was a British two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo-carrying
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was a 1910s British two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo-carrying folder seaplane
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the Royal Navy ordered seven 100 hp biplane seaplanes from Shorts
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The Consolidated P2Y was an American sesquiplane maritime patrol flying boat.
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The Naval Aircraft Factory PN was a series of open cockpit American flying boats of the 1920s and 1930s.
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In configuration, these were biplane flying boats powered by a single engine
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an American single-engined flying boat of World War I
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was a single-engined patrol flying boat
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The HA was a two-seat biplane with a central float and balancing floats on the wingtips.
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is a flying boat built by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
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a large experimental four-engined triplane patrol flying boat of World War I
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was a flying boat of the interwar period
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is a flying boat designed and built by the British Supermarine Aviation Works company
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The Budd BB-1 Pioneer was an experimental United States flying boat of the 1930s utilizing the Savoia-Marchetti S.56 design.
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intermediate-level training seaplane
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a Japanese floatplane trainer
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three-seat reconnaissance seaplane
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single-engined reconnaissance floatplane
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Japanese biplane military flying boat
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small Japanese flying boat
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Japanese flying boat of the 1930s
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three-seat reconnaissance floatplane
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The Kawanishi K-6 was a passenger-carrying biplane floatplane, built in Japan in the 1920s.
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The Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane was a Japanese single-engined biplane floatplane of the 1920s.
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The Kawanishi K-8 Transport Seaplane was a Japanese single-engined floatplane of the 1920s.
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was a single-engine Japanese seaplane used for reconnaissance
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is a Russian aircraft manufacturer (design office prefix Be), specializing in amphibious aircraft
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which entered service with the Soviet Navy in 1935
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was a reconnaissance flying boat built to operate from Soviet warships
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long-range maritime reconnaissance, coastal and supply line patrols, torpedo/bombing strikes, mine-laying, and transport operations
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It was a passenger/liaison amphibian aircraft
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twin engined, turbojet powered, flying-boat, patrol bomber
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is a Soviet/Russian jet-powered amphibious flying boat
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is an amphibious seaplane designed by Beriev
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was a two-seat reconnaissance seaplane built for the Soviet Navy
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was the first Soviet turbojet-powered flying boat
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is a proposed amphibian aircraft with two propeller engines
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is a super heavy amphibious transport aircraft
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was a Soviet long-range reconnaissance/bomber flying boat prototype
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was a Soviet short-range reconnaissance/bomber flying boat
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The Goodyear GA-2 Duck is a 1940s American three-seat light amphibious aircraft
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