Boeing Model 204

The Boeing Model 204 was an American biplane, pusher-configuration flying boat built by Boeing in 1929. Externally it looked identical to the Boeing Model 6E, but internal changes, including raising the passenger capacity to four, gave it a new type certificate and model number. Construction began on five aircraft but only two were completed, the 204 and the dual-control 204A, which Peter Barnes later flew on his private Seattle to Victoria, British Columbia route; a private owner who bought the three unfinished machines built a third. The modified C-204 Thunderbird, with altered wing and tailplane incidence and a smaller upper wing, was the first type produced by Boeing Aircraft of Canada. Its prototype flew on 30 March 1930; the four built sold slowly, three were eventually sold, and all worked in British Columbia until 1939.