Large flying boats that carried passengers over oceans and between coastal cities in the 1930s and 1940s, before long-range land airliners and airfields made them unnecessary. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the aircraft a passenger, commercial or transatlantic flying boat. It excludes military patrol flying boats and small amphibians. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
All Commercial Flying Boats and Clippers
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Dornier Do X, Wikipedia
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The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929.
Boeing 314 Clipper - Wikipedia
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The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941.
Saunders-Roe Princess - Wikipedia
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The Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess was a British flying boat aircraft developed and built by Saunders-Roe at their Cowes facility on the Isle of Wight.
Wikipedia: Sikorsky S-42
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The Sikorsky S-42 was a commercial flying boat designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft to meet requirements for a long-range flying boat laid out by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) in 1931.
Short Empire - Wikipedia
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The Short Empire was a four-engined monoplane transport flying boat, designed and developed by Short Brothers during the 1930s to meet the requirements of the British Empire, specifically to provide air service from the UK to South Africa, Singapore and Australia in stages.
Martin M-130 - Wikipedia
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The Martin M-130 was a quad-engined commercial flying boat designed and produced in 1935 by the Glenn L.
Sikorsky VS-44 - Wikipedia
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The Sikorsky VS-44 is a large four-engined flying boat built in the United States in the early 1940s by Sikorsky Aircraft.
Short Solent - Wikipedia
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The Short Solent is a passenger flying boat that was produced by Short Brothers in the late 1940s.
Latécoère 631 (Wikipedia)
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The Latécoère 631 was a civil transatlantic flying boat designed and produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Latécoère.
Sikorsky S-40, Wikipedia
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The Sikorsky S-40 was an American amphibious flying boat built by Sikorsky in the early 1930s for Pan American Airways.
Latecoere 300 - Wikipedia
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The Latécoère 300 series of aircraft were a group of civil and military flying boats.
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