Goodyear Duck

The Goodyear Duck was a small American amphibious aircraft of the 1940s, built by the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation as a light flying boat for private pilots. The prototype, the GA-1, flew in September 1944 as a two-seat high-wing monoplane with an all-metal hull, underwing floats and a pylon-mounted piston engine driving a pusher propeller. Eighteen further aircraft followed, seating a pilot and two passengers, as the GA-2 with a 145 horsepower Franklin engine and the GA-2B with a 165 horsepower engine. Only 19 were built, and they served only for testing and demonstration, because the cost of producing them put the price beyond what private pilots could pay and the project was abandoned. Goodyear later flew a four-seat development called the Drake in 1950 and 1953.