Fleetwing Sea Bird

F-5 Sea Bird 1936 (ATC 680) = 4pChwMAm; 285hp Jacobs L-5 or 300hp L-6; span: 40'6" length: 31'6" load: 1130# v: 150/139/58 range: 430-550. Cecil de Ganahl, James Reddig. Stainless steel hull. $18,500-22,500; POP: 5 [NC16918, NC19191/19194]; [NC19193] reregistered in 1940 as [NC5].

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Fleetwing
• F-5
• Sea
• Bird
• seabird
• amphibian
• seaplane
• aircraft
• airplane
• aviation
• history

[D200Shutterbug]

Very interesting.

I was surprised when I saw the last picture, taken by me when I was Air Traffic Control in Prince George Tower (CYXS).

[jacwy]

The very aircraft in this video is in my hangar in Minneapolis.

[PhanDad47]

great video, I never saw video of the seabird flying. Somewhere I have pictures of the plane. My dad was the chief pilot for Fleetwings and demo'd the plane for many folks, including Howard Hughes - he didn't buy one.

[drifter503]

Nicely done...

[whizbang47]

What a magnificent bird. One of my father's daydreams when he worked for Clarence Chamberlain for $5 a day and lessons in an Aeronca C-3.

[snarebreath]

The aircraft in the movie is the Fleetwings Seabird model F-4 (the prototype), not an F-5 production model. The F-4 also appears in the opening still image of the Fleetwings sales brochure, and in all of the still images following the movie. The second and third still images (with the raft, and parked on land) are of F-5 production models. Of a total of six aircraft made, only the prototype and s/n 2 (in the raft photo) are still airworthy.

[denberg2]

Keep 'em coming, Bomberguy!