Question about Seaplanes

PaulH wrote:
Sporty's pilot supply catalog had a really cool picture a couple of
years ago of a DC3 on floats. Don't have any idea what it was used
for, though.

The DC-3 on floats still existed last year that I know
of personally. The owner used to keep it at the
Greenville Airport on Moosehead Lake in Maine during
the summer and at the Bangor Airport during the winter
where it could get its annual whenever the maintenance
people had time.

I have pictures of the plane if anyone is interested.


Lou.

"Lou Ramsay" wrote in message
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The DC-3 on floats still existed last year that I know
of personally. The owner used to keep it at the
Greenville Airport on Moosehead Lake in Maine during
the summer and at the Bangor Airport during the winter
where it could get its annual whenever the maintenance
people had time.

I saw it (or one like it) at Sun-N-Fun a few years back. You could easily
park an SUV between the floats. Truly impressive! It was owned by the
missionary airline here in W. Palm Beach for a while. I understand that they
found the floats in the Bahamas somewhere and mated them with one of their
DC-3s.

Vaughn