Tag: Flying Boat Seaplane Series
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Update: Beutenmuller Family Collection #1: Searching for the Port Washington Seaplane Terminals
After receiving hundreds of photos of Long Island seaplanes and airplanes from Jennifer Robinson from her grandfather's collection, I have become obsessed with the history of seaplanes in Port Washington located less than six miles from my home. My first post in the series: Searching for the Port Washington Seaplane…
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Flying Boat/Seaplane of the Week: Grumman G-21 Goose “Duckling” (NC-1692) Owned by E. Roland Harriman
This week's Flying Boat/Seaplane is the Grumman G-21 Goose G-21 "Duckling" amphibian built by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in Long Island's Bethpage for financier E. Roland Harriman.
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Flying Boat/Seaplane of the Week: Sikorsky S-42B Pan American Clipper III (NC-16736)
This weekend's Flying Boat/Seaplane is the historic Pan American S-42B Clipper III, built by Sikorsky at Stratford, Connecticut and delivered in mid-1937.
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Flying Boat/Seaplane of the Week: Short Brothers S-23 C Class Empire Caledonia (G-ADHM)
This weekend's flying boat/seaplane of the week is the historic Empire S-23 C-Class Caledonia (G-ADHM) built by the Short Brothers based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Flying Boat/Seaplane of the Week: Spencer-Larsen SL-12C Amphibian NX-20621
Our first Seaplane of the Week is an experimental monoplane amphibian built by Percival Spencer and engineer Vincent Larsen in a factory in Farmingdale in May 1938. These images of the Spencer-Larsen SL-12 C amphibian have been provided by the Beutenmuller Family Collection, the Cradle of Aviation and various aviation…
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Mystery Foto #13 Solved: Willie K’s Seaplane at Port Washington Marine Base in 1938 & Howard Hughes
Jennifer Robinson challenged you to solve these Mystery Fotos from the Beutenmuller Family Collection.
Howard, you have another connection to Bird’s Long Island Duesenberg J! The designer of the three 1934 Walker-LaGrande…