Flying Boat Collection

The Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft, c1937 (c1937). The Short Mayo Composite was a long-range seaplane combination produced by Short Brothers to provide a reliable long-range air transport service to

The Short Sunderland, 1941. Creator: Unknown
The Short Sunderland, 1941. The Short S.25 Sunderland was a British flying boat patrol bomber developed for the RAF by Short Brothers

The Consolidated Catalina, 1941. Creator: Unknown
The Consolidated Catalina, 1941. The Consolidated PBY Catalina, American flying boat and amphibious aircraft built by Consolidated Aircraft

Curtiss Airplane - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane, or Flying Boat Exhibited at House Office Building, 1917. Signs: Hydro-Aeroplane or Flying Boat for the National Aero Coast Patrol - National Aerial Coast

National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Aero Coast Patrol Commission - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited Near House Office Building, Frankenfield; Rep. Curry; Bowman, 1917

National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited Near House Office Building, Bowman; Frankenfield; [Robert] Peary [centre]; Smith; Fred Kelly, 1917

National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited Near House Office Building, 1917

National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited Near House Office Building, Ripley Bowman, 1917. Signs: This Flying Boat has been 700 hours in the Air

National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited Near House Office Building, Rep. Kahn; Unidentified; Asst. Sec. Ingraham; Adm. [Robert] Peary; Rep. Lieb; Prof

National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited Near House Office Building, Rep. Kahn; Unidentified Back; Asst. Sec. Ingraham; Adm

National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited Near House Office Building, E.H. Smith; Rep. Kahn; Rep. Lieb, 1917

National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited Near House Office Building, at Center Is Group Too Huddled To Identify; Capt. Taylor; Miss Marie Peary; Byron R

National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Aero Coast Patrol Commn. - Curtiss Hydroaeroplane or Flying Boat Exhibited Near House Office Building, 1917

A Service Station - Seaplanes, Second World War, (1944). Creator: Charles Cundall
A Service Station - Seaplanes, Second World War, (1944). British aircraft of the Royal Air Force at the coast. Painting in a private collection. From " Britain In The Air", by Nigel Tangye

Winston Churchill talking to Captain Shakespeare of the flying boat Berwick, c1939-c1944 (1946)
Winston Churchill talking to Captain Shakespeare of the Boeing flying boat Berwick, c1939-c1944 (1946). Mr Churchill, in siren suit, talking to Captain Shakespeare

Curtiss Model E Flying Boat (hull only), 1913. Creator: Curtiss Aeroplane
Hull of a Curtiss Model E Flying Boat. Full-size aircraft was a single-engine, two-seat, biplane with a pusher engine mounted above

Pump, Hand, "Wobble", Curtiss NC-3 Failed Transatlantic Flight, 1919
7/8 in inlet and outlet. The NC-3 aircrew used this pump to move coolant or fuel in the event of an in-flight mechanical breakdown

Short Singapore Reconaissance Flying Boat, 1930s. Creator: Unknown
Short Singapore Reconaissance Flying Boat, 1930s. British biplane used by the Royal Air Force as a long-range maritime patrol flying boat

Imperial Airways Flying Boat Scipio, 1934. Creator: C. T. Howard
Imperial Airways Flying Boat Scipio, 1934. British seaplane

The Iris about to rise from the water, 1933. Creator: Unknown
The Iris about to rise from the water, 1933. The Blackburn Iris, a British three-engined biplane flying boat, was used as a long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft by the Royal Air Force

The Vickers-Armstrongs Walrus, 1941. Creator: Unknown
The Vickers-Armstrongs Walrus, 1941. The Supermarine Walrus, a British amphibian flying boat, was designed for use as a fleet spotter to be catapult-launched from cruisers or battleships

Saunders-Roe Lerwick, 1941. Creator: Unknown
Saunders-Roe " Lerwick", 1941. Advertisement for the Saunders-Roe A.36 Lerwick, a British flying boat built by Saunders-Roe Limited

The Shadow Moves East, c1939-c1944 (1946). Creator: Unknown
The Shadow Moves East, c1939-c1944 (1946). From " Merchant Airmen - The Air Ministry Account of British Civil Aviation, 1939-1944". [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1946]

Back cover of Merchant Airmen, 1946. Creator: Unknown
Back cover of " Merchant Airmen", 1946. From " Merchant Airmen - The Air Ministry Account of British Civil Aviation, 1939-1944". [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1946]

Mr. Churchill with the R. A. F. - at the controls of the flying boat Berwick"
Mr. Churchill with the R.A.F." - at the controls of the flying boat " Berwick", January 1942, (1945). British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Dornier Do X flying boat navigation room, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Dornier Do X flying boat navigation room, 1920s, (1932). Interior of the German Dornier Do X, the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier

Saloon on board the Dornier Do X flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Saloon on board the Dornier Do X flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Interior of the German Dornier Do X, the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier

Dornier Wal flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Dornier Wal flying boat, 1920s, (1932). The Wal ( Whale ) was a twin-engine German flying boat with a cabin for 12 passengers, designed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke and produced in the 1920s

Rohrbach Romar flying-boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Rohrbach Romar flying-boat, 1920s, (1932). German long-range commercial flying-boat, the last aircraft designed and built by the Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau factory

Dornier Superwal flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Dornier Superwal flying boat, 1920s, (1932). The Superwal ( Super-Whale ) was a German flying boat with 19 passengers, designed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke and produced in the 1920s

Dornier Dos flying boat, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Dornier Dos flying boat, 1932. The Dos was a large 22-passenger flying boat airliner flown in Germany in 1930. Only one was built

Cockpit on board the Dornier flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Cockpit on board the Dornier flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Interior of the German Dornier flying boat produced by the Dornier company in the 1920s

Heinkel He 57 Heron plane, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Heinkel He 57 Heron plane, 1932. The He 57 was a German single-engine amphibious flying boat built in the early 1930s. From " Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air)

Rohrbach Rostra flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Rohrbach Rostra flying boat, 1920s, (1932). The Rohrbach Ro XI Rostra German flying boat built in 1928 for use as a transatlantic mail plane

Heinkel HD55 flying boat, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Heinkel HD55 flying boat, 1932. German biplane used as a reconnaissance aircraft aboard Soviet warships, with 500-600 horse power air-cooled Siemens engine

Control room on board the Dornier Do X flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Control room on board the Dornier Do X flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Interior of the German Dornier Do X, the largest, heaviest

Wolfgang von Gronau arrives in New York, August 1930, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Wolfgang von Gronau arrives in New York after crossing the Atlantic, August 1930, (1932). German aviation pioneer Wolfgang von Gronau (1893-1977)

Dornier Libelle flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Dornier Libelle flying boat, 1920s, (1932). The Libelle ( Dragonfly ) was a German open-cockpit, all-metal, parasol wing, monoplane flying boat aircraft, which first flew in 1921

Dornier Do X II flying boat, 1920s, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Dornier Do X II flying boat, 1920s, 1932. The Dornier Do X, produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929, was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world at the time

Radio room on board Dornier flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Radio room on board Dornier flying boat, 1920s, (1932). From " Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air), cigarette card album produced by the Garba ty cigarette factory, 1932

Dornier Delphin III flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Dornier Delphin III flying boat, 1920s, (1932). The Delphin ( Dolphin ) III was a German single-engine commercial flying boat built by Dornier Flugzeugwerke in the 1920s

Dornier Do X I flying boat, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown
Dornier Do X I flying boat, 1920s, (1932). The Dornier Do X, produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929, was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world at the time

Saunders Aeroplanes in hangar, East Cowes, 1914. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Saunders Aeroplanes in hangar, East Cowes, 1914. S. E. Saunders were involved in the development of early amphibious aircraft

The Calcutta Flying-Boat Moored in the Thames opposite the Houses of Parliament, 1927. From The Wonder Book of Aircraft, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co, Limited, London & Melbourne, 1927]

A British triplane flying boat, c1918 (1919). Artist: RAF photographer
A British triplane flying boat, c1918 (1919). The manufacture and development of flying boat aircraft accelerated rapidly during World War I

Quite an early type of waterplane making a trial flight from Hampstead Ponds, c1918 (1919). Artist: W Heath Robinson
Quite an early type of waterplane making a trial flight from Hampstead Ponds, c1918 (1919). From The Wonder Book of Aircraft for Boys and Girls, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward. Lock & Co

Flying boats and floatplanes from aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy, c1936 (c1937)
Flying boats and floatplanes from aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy during exercises in the Mediterranean, c1936 (c1937)

The Short Mayo Composite aircraft, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

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