Flying Boat Aircraft
The "Flying Boat" is a largely overlooked aircraft group in modern times.
There are a total of 32 Flying Boat Aircraft in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1918
The Aeromarine Model 40 (or simply "Aeromarine 40") was a two-seat flying boat trainer aircraft serving the United States Nav...
1961
The Beriev Be-12 "Mail" was a successful flying boat aircraft for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, fulfilling the role o...
1935
The Beriev Be-2 was one of the few flying boats of note fighting for the Soviet Union throughout World War 2 as very little i...
1990
The Be-42 / A-40 Albatross (designated by NATO as "Mermaid") was asuprise discovery for Western intelligence sources when it...
1940
The Blohm and Voss (also written as "Blohm und Voss" or "Blohm & Voss") Bv 138 was a German flying boat that saw quantitative...
1941
The Blohm & Voss Bv 222 Wiking (translating to "Viking") was a large German flying boat design of World War 2. The behemoth s...
1944
The mammoth Blohm & Voss Bv 238 was the next evolution in the Blohm & Voss flying boat series for Germany during World War Tw...
1939
The Boeing Model 314 "Clipper" was a flying boat developed by Boeing Aircraft Company to fulfill a Pan American requirement f...
1936
The CANT Z.501 Gabbiano (meaning "Gull") was a flying boat aircraft developed in Italy and shared a resemblance to the succes...
1940
By the middle of the 1930's America was no longer blind to the real possibility that the war would sooner or later be waged a...
1936
Maritime aircraft play an understated role, especially in that of war time. Fly boats came to pass, first in peace-time devel...
1917
In 1911, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company unveiled their Model D, a biplane aircraft powered by a single Curtiss E-4 e...
1918
World War 1 in Europe prompted all military industries to develop and produce various solutions to ongoing (and some new) pro...
1938
Though a serviceable flying boat with a successful pedigree, the Dornier Do 18 was highly outclassed and outdated at the star...
1937
The Dornier Do 24 was a capable flying both serving in limited numbers both Allied and Axis powers in World War 2. The system...
1917
The Felixstowe F.5 series originated in the United Kingdom as a militarized flying boat in the last year of World War 1 (1918...
1937
While most every aircraft venture usually began with a military requirement or private venture undertaken by a manufacturer f...
1949
The Grumman HU-16 Albatross platform made appearances all across the globe with United States military forces, rescuing downe...
1945
The famed Hercules aircraft produced and flown only one time by Howard Hughes himself. It was commonly known as the 'Spruce G...
1938
Though looking very much the part of a German-produced Dornier series flying boat, the Kawanishi brand H6K series (codenamed ...
1942
The Empire of Japan seemed to be producing its best aircraft designs of the war towards the end of the conflict. The Kawanish...
1987
The Lun-class Ekranoplan flying boat was one of the most distinct designs to emerge from the Cold War. The aircraft was desig...
1941
The Martin PBM-3 / PBM-5 Mariner was a World War 2-era flying boat used in the maritime reconnaissance role. Martin designed ...
1936
The Saro London borrowed much from the British flying boat designs peppering the 1920s and, in many ways, her retirement was ...
1946
The Short Solent was a passenger transport "flying boat" designed in the years following World War 2, when a burgeoning passe...
1937
The Short Sunderland was the premiere flying boat of British military aviators during World War 2. Oft regarded as one of the...
1937
The Supermarine Stranraer was the final evolution of the Supermarine Southampton which debuted in March of 1925. The original...
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