#floatplane

[aviatrix-ash]

Another obligatory Beaver photo. She's stunning at every angle <3

[lonestarflight]

Three Vought OS2U Kingfishers landing on water near Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

Photographed by Thornton, H. Marion in the 1940s.

Alaska State Library: ASL-P338-0423

[lonestarbattleship]

A Vought O2U-1 Corsair floatplane being lifted onboard USS TEXAS (BB-35).

Photographed sometime between January and June 1930.

source

[aviationgeek71]

[carbone14]

Hydravion de reconnaissance Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull de l'US Navy – 2 juillet 1939

©Naval History and Heritage Command – 80-G-5885

[nocternalrandomness]

Desert Splash's Caravan at Scottsdale Airport

[coiour-my-world]

Noah's Island, Alaska || Photo: Jimmy Dieffenderfer

[bigglesworld]

Vought OS2U Kingfisher. Observation and Scout aircraft. Mounted on the catapult of USS Miami (CL-89). 2 March 1945.

[rabbitcruiser]

Schwatka Lake, Whitehorse

Schwatka Lake is a reservoir created by the damming of the Yukon River in Whitehorse, Yukon, completed in 1958. The dam provides electrical power generation and is operated by the Yukon Energy Corporation. The White Horse Rapids, which gave the city its name, are now under the lake. The lake was named after Frederick Schwatka, a US Army Lieutenant who was first to explore the total length of the Yukon River.

A fish ladder has been constructed around the hydroelectric dam to allow the passage of Chinook salmon to their spawning grounds upstream of Whitehorse. The Chinook salmon that pass the dam have the longest freshwater migration route of any salmon, over 3,000 kilometres to the mouth of the Yukon River in the Bering Sea.

Whitehorse Water Aerodrome, a float plane base, is located on the lake. The lake has been the city's water supply for some years, but the city is now converting to relying entirely on aquifers, partly due to the threat of pollution from fuel spills and other activities by people in the watershed of the lake. Previously, there had been talk of moving the float plane base or the water supply to Fish Lake, which is impractically located to the west over a winding, steep road.

Source: Wikipedia

[postcard-from-the-past]

Dutch twin-engined torpedo bomber and aerial reconnaissance floatplane Fokker T.VIII on a vintage postcard

[thestonecuttersguild]

Amphibious Skywagon. Oshkosh 2024

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[lonestarflight]

A US Navy Vought OS2U Kingfisher, with fixed landing gear instead of floats and two depth charges on the underside of the wings, sitting at an airfield in Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

Photographed by Thornton, H. Marion in the 1940s.

Alaska State Library: ASL-P338-0421

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Arado Ar 196 of Seenotstaffel (Marine Rescue Squadron) 6 (K3+CO), of Stab/Aufkl.Gr (Staff, Reconnaissance Group) 126, being catapult launched, the Mediterranean, date unknown. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

[carbone14]

Hydravion de reconnaissance maritime Vought OS2U Kingfisher – Base navale de Pensacola – Floride – Etats-Unis – 1942

[nocternalrandomness]

Cessna 185 floatplane flying over the Alaska Range with Mt. McKinley in the background.