List of seaplanes and amphibious aircraft

Three Canadair CL-215 amphibious flying boats

The following is a list of seaplanes and amphibious aircraft, which includes floatplanes and flying boats, by country of origin.

Seaplanes are any aircraft that has the capability of landing on water while amphibians are equipped with wheels to alight on land, as well as being able to land on the water. Flying boats rely on the fuselage or hull for buoyancy, while floatplanes rely on external pontoons or floats. Some experimental aircraft used specially designed skis to skim across the water but did not always have a corresponding ability to float.

This list does not include ekranoplans, 'Wing-In-Ground-effect' (WIG), water-skimmers, wingships or similar vehicles reliant on ground effect.

Australia

Austria

Austro-Hungarian Lohner L.1 patrol flying boat from World War 1

Austria-Hungary

Brazil

Canada

Canadian-Vickers Vedette forestry patrol flying boat
Noorduyn Norseman bushplane

China

Harbin Sh-5

Czechoslovakia

Finland

France

Deperdussin Monocoque
"Le Canard"
Latécoere 300 Croix-du-Sud operated by Air France

Germany

Albatros W.IV floatplane fighter
Arado Ar 196 with wings folded being hoisted aboard a warship
Blohm und Voss Bv 138 patrol flying boat
Blohm und Voss Bv 222 transport flying boat
Dornier Wal flying boat during Roald Amundsen's North Pole flight
Dornier DO X
Gotha WD.2
Hansa-Brandenburg CC floatplane fighter
Hansa-Brandenburg W.29 two-seat World War I floatplane fighter
Heinkel He 58 mailplane being loaded on liner Europa
Norwegian Heinkel He 115
Junkers W.34 bushplane on floats
Rohrbach Ro V Rocco all-metal flying boat

Italy

CANT Z.501 Gabbiano reconnaissance flying boat
Caproni Ca.60 triple triplane flying boat
Caproni CA.100
World War 1 Macchi M.5 sesquiplane fighter
Macchi M.67 Schneider Trophy racer
Macchi MC.94 transport flying boat
Piaggio P.7 racing seaplane which used hydrofoils for landing and take-off
SIAI Marchetti S.21 Schneider racer
Savoia-Marchetti S.55P

Japan

Aichi M6A Seiran submarine-launched bomber
Kawanishi N1K1 Kyofu floatplane fighter
Mitsubishi F1M observation floatplane
Shin-Meiwa US-2 search and rescue flying boat

Norway

Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.12

Netherlands

Fokker T-IV

New Zealand

Walsh Brothers type D flying boat

Poland

Lublin R-XIII ter/hydro

Romania

Russia, CIS, USSR

Beriev Be-12
Colored water release from Be-200 at aeroshow
Grigorovich M-5
Tupolev TB-1/ANT-4

Sweden

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Blackburn Iris Mk.III patrol flying boat
Replica of Portuguese Fairey IIID used for successful 1922 transatlantic crossing
Felixstowe F.3 patrol bomber
Gloster IIIA Schneider racer
Swedish Hawker Osprey on warship
Saro Cloud
Saunders-Roe SR A1
Short Empire taking off
Short Sunderland patrol bomber
Supermarine S.6b, last winner of the Schneider Cup
Supermarine Southampton
Supermarine Walrus spotting amphibian on cruiser

United States

Aeromarine 75 in flight
Citabria showing off its floats - or pontoons
Barlkey-Grow T8P on floats
BOAC Boeing 314A landing
Cessna 185 on floats
Consolidated Catalina waterbomber dropping water
US Navy Curtiss H-16
US Coast Guard Douglas Dolphin amphibian taxiing out of the water
Fairchild FC-2L utility transport and bushplane
Grumman Widgeon on Kodiak Island
Hughes Hercules 'Spruce Goose' - largest flying boat ever flown
Martin Mars waterbombers at their home base in Port Alberni, BC.
Naval Aircraft Factory TS-1 floatplane fighter
Piper PA-18 Super Cub floatplane
US Army Sikorsky C-6a (S-38)
Volmer Sportsman homebuilt amphibian

Vietnam

Yugoslavia

See also

References

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