Historical Amphibious Aircraft

Vintage amphibious planes from the 1920s and 1930s, featuring biplanes and floatplanes. They highlight early aviation history with rustic charm.

1920s 1930s FRONT OF A FORD TRI-MOTOR PROPELLER AIRPLANE WORDS ABOVE WHEEL DANGER PROPELLER

Landing on water or on land, this 'giant' amphibian carries 14 passengers from Los Angeles to Catalina Island for Western Air Express Date: 1928

Inauguration of Tel-Aviv landing ground. Palestine Airways. A plane taxiing to take position for start. 1938, Israel

James Frederick Cane by a biplane. From the album: James Cane photograph album, circa 1930s, New Zealand, maker unknown.

Aviation history. Airship Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 airborn with the amphibian aircraft Dornier Superwal starting in front. 1930s

1920s 1930s FRONT OF A FORD TRI-MOTOR PROPELLER AIRPLANE WORDS ABOVE WHEEL DANGER PROPELLER

The picture shows the flight of three seaplane longest coastline .. The picture shows the flight of three seaplane longest coastline.

Hanging on for dear life (EV007338_H)

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, and his wife Ann Morrow, leave on honeymoon, 1930. Lindbergh (1902 - 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris on May 20-21, 1927

Part of a screwblad of the submarine harr.ms. Gelderland (D 811) during construction (1951-1955) at the Wilton Fijenoord Wilton in Schiedam.

James Frederick Cane. From the album: James Cane photograph album, circa 1930s, New Zealand, maker unknown.

Air views of Palestine. Flight from Gaza to Cairo via Ismalieh. Flying boat above the Nile with King Albert on board. 1932, Egypt

Grade's monoplane, 1908, (1932). Creator: Unknown.

Biplane. From the album: James Cane photograph album, circa 1930s, New Zealand, maker unknown.

from a series of cards for Brooke Bond Tea; 1973; "Adventurers & Explorers", illustrated by John ; depicting illustrated colour image of Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), American; colour illustration of Lindbergh taking off from Roosevelt Field in 1927 (A series of 50 cards, no. 38).

Return of His Excellency from London, Sunday Oct. 16, 1938. Sir Harold MacMichael landing on Kulundia aerodrome in a Palestine airways machine. His Excellency stepping out of his plane, West Bank, Qalandiyah

A Curtiss Model JN4-A aeroplane made by the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Corp. in Buffalo, NY. The photograph was taken in November 1918 but has a documentation date of Feb. 1, 1917. The image is labeled with the code "34409" and contains the note "for official use only."

Close-up of a man holding a television camera in an airplane

The picture shows the painting of a horse as decoration on an airplane .. The picture shows the painting of a horse embellishment on an airplane.

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945- Hawker Hurricane. The last Hurricane built by the Hawker Aircraft Company, Mark IIC, PZ865 'The Last of the Many', decorated with banners and pennants on its completion at Langley, Berkshire. PZ865 was bought off the original Ministry of Aircraft Production contract by Hawkers and was retained as a communications and test aircraft. After the war it was placed on the civil register as G-AMAU and participated in a number of air races and displays before undergoing a complete overhaul in 1972, and presentation to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, with whom it continues to fly.

United Airlines Boeing NC178E Cascade Mail Biplane

Historical image of a flying biplane on skis Alaska

Plane of the Wright brothers in flight; Aéroplane Wright. .

Postcards 'Air Force Museum island 1, Tummelisa' Postcard of aircraft thumbs up in the air.Franked with stamps with motifs of satellite and stamped with the day of the stamp, on October 14, 1984.

Two aircraft SK 16 fly in Roteformation over water Motiv: Two aircraft so-called 16 marked 72 and 87 associated F 16 Upplands fly fleet flying in rotation over water.

Vintage photograph. Airplane at Bendix Air Terminal

World War I air battle with German Fokker monoplane attacking French Voisin biplane, painting by Charles H. Hubbell, ca. 1915

Seaplane at the seaplane base in Genoa, July 26, 1936, Italy, 20th century.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. modest Guinea aviation society "De Kroonduif" Havilland Canada Beavers, people country quickly. February 1955. Guinea

Beginning of a Search. This image depicts a Coast Guard plane preparing to take off for a rescue mission.

Camel & plane. 1925, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Looping Plane, Stunt Performed by Jersey Ringel by Charles Hubbell

Boställshus 9 f to the left, Lilla Snösposkarbarack 12 J in the middle and outbuilding 10 f to the right in the picture.

Photograph of a Vought V-173, also known as, a Flying Pancake, an American experimental test aircraft built during the Second World War. Dated 20th Century

Airplane engineers.Three mechanics are performing the important last minute check of engine details before start. The airplane is a swedish single propeller engine light bomb and survaillance unit model B5. The swedish company Saab Svenska Aeroplan AB produced this airplane on license from American Northrop and their model 8A-1. Picture taken in the 1940s during the second world war.

Espenlaub E 12 plane, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown.

Detail of a B-29 Bombing Plane on Public View, National Airport, Washington, D.C., USA, photograph by Pauline Ehrlich, U.S. Office of War Information, November 1944

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Dropping the Italian flag onto the North Pole from the air, Airship Italia, May 24, 1928, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LV, No 33, August 12, 1928.

Two aircraft in the air Aerial photography of two aircraft FVM Phönix C.I.

Snowmakers in Storlien.

Aircraft p s 12 in the air. Scouting aircraft S 12 marked 24 from F 2 Hänernäs in the air. Seen obliquely from below.

Aviation in Britain Before the First World War- the work of Samuel Franklin Cody in Airship, Kite and Aircraft Aeronautics 1903 - 1913 S F Cody demonstrates the passenger carrying capabilities of the Cody Aircraft Mark IIE (nicknamed Omnibus). Cody built this aircraft in 1910 and modified it to develop the ability to carry passengers. With an Austro-Daimler engine fitted, the aircraft could carry four passengers and was the first aircraft to do so in this country. It was eventually crashed by Lieutenant J N Fletcher whilst Cody was teaching him to fly on 5 April 1912.

Sea Bird Taking Off. This image depicts artwork of a U.S. Coast Guard Sea Bird taking off from the water. Artwork by Hunter Wood.

Vintage photograph. Airplane at Bendix Air Terminal

Aircraft's 5D flying over Helsingborg, 1935. Motifs: Aircraft's 5D from F 2 Roslagens flying fleet flying over Helsingborg, 1935. Large format, mounted photo.

A light aeroplane comes in to land over the heads of watchers in a car Date: 1935

Old pusher , Biplanes, Air shows, Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Landing in Djambi; Before the departure of Palembang. Airplane engine. December 1948. Indonesia, Jambi, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

An aeroplane over London, 1926.Artist: GH Davis

High angle view of an airplane parked on a runway

Uganda. Entebbe. Plane landed on aerodrome. 1936, Uganda, Entebbe

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Africa. 1936, Africa

04/14/1970. Inauguration of the Buenavista airport - photo A. Benitez.

Dornier Merkur plane with snow skids, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown.

Group congregating around an airplane. Fédèle Azari (Italian, 1895 - 1930)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Aviation day military aviation at Kemajoran airport. Fly show. A Piper Cub or Auster. March 9, 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Kemajoran, Dutch East Indies

Poll photo collection. Schiphol. Passengers leave a Haviland Dragon Rapide. July 1945. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Elsevier photo collection. From a viaduct in Rotterdam, the planes that drop food are added. April 1945. Rotterdam, South Holland

Photograph of Thomas Sopwith (1888-1989) an English aviation pioneer and yachtsman, in the cockpit of a plane. Dated 20th Century

On-board shots. Tourists in ball games on the sundeck of a high-sea passenger steamer of the Hapag

Sudan. Bor District (Sud country). Air view. Section of the Nile. 1936, Sudan, Bor District

The picture shows a painted patriarchal cross and a snake with wings as decoration on an airplane.Patriarchal crosses or Lothringenkors were since 1912 part of the flag of the then German state Elsass-Lothringen. The picture shows a painted patriarchal cross and a snake with wings as decoration on an airplane.Patriarchal crosses or Lothringenkors were since 1912 part of the flag of the then German state Elsass Lothringen.

Aviation Aircraft Crop Dusters. September 26, 1955. (Photo by Associated Newspaper Ltd.).

Focke-Wulf A28 Habicht plane, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown.

A Hawker Nimrod aeroplane, c1930s.Artist: James Hay Stevens

Illustration - Titanic Sinking. RMS Titanic Sinking. Illustration showing the Titanic sinking with the headline 'She Slowly Tilted Straight On End' Titanic was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast Ireland during 1910 - 1911 and later sank on April 15th, 1912 after striking an iceberg off the coast of New Foundland during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, USA, with the loss of 1,522 passengers and crew. (Photo by Titanic Images/Universal Images Group)

Lydda Airport. Misr airplane refuelling. 1934, Israel, Lod

339B Southern Star. December 29, 1931.

Coast Guard Plane Assistance. This image depicts a Coast Guard plane assisting the fishing vessel AMBERJACK as it tows the raft LEHI IV back to harbor with a Coast Guard patrol boat nearby.

North American P-51B 1/3 scale model with dummy airspeed booms & mounted on thin struts in 16ft w.t.

Florida - Jacksonville, Aerial Photograph.

Consolidated Vultee B-36 in Flight. Consolidated Vultee B-36 in Flight.

Flying boat 'Satyrus' on Sea of Galilee, ca. 1935. 1935, Israel

Airplane sk 10 in the air aircraft sober 10 with skis in the air.

Royal New Zealand Airforce display, Rongotai, Wellington, 4 June 1938, Wellington, by Roland Searle.

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Italian pilot Cattaneo tests his rocket-powered monoplane. Date: 1932

Steve Amos. Damage - boat , Accidents, Boats. Leon Abdalian Collection

Hawthorne, California: May 25, 1946 Northrop's Flying Wing Bomber, XB-35, is wheeled on to the runway for its first taxi tests.

Martin bomber beginning its flight around the edge of the USA, 1919. Here in Washington, DC with the Washington Memorial in the background

Rohrbach Rocco seaplane, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown.

Four engine passenger plane of the Imperial Airways refueling from a Shell Oil Company mobile fuel tank at Semakh, in north Palestine in October 1931. Imperial Airways was the early British commercial long range air transport company, operating from 1924 to 1939 and serving parts of Europe and the extended British Empire.

German aircraft shot. Along the side of a motorway are two shot German combat aircraft, one is a junker 52. The Dutch on motorcycles come to see the wrecks. Photo probably dates from the May Days 1940.

Anthony Fokker, Dutch Aviator and Aircraft Manufacturer, Portrait, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, July 1922

The air liner 'Hannibal' on the Alexandria aerodome. 1936, Egypt, Alexandria

Elsevier photo collection. Record flight London-Cape Town v.v. 5 days 17.5 hours, Mrs. Kirby-Green kite officer A.E. Clouston in Havilland Comet DH 88. landing Croydon (near London). November 14, 1937. Croydon, Britain

1932. The aviator Fernando Rein Loring posing next to his plane.

Two canoes as seen from above. Two canoes as seen from above

Eric Lee-Johnson and Michael Hutt at Mascot Aerodrome, Sydney black-and-white prints

Germany: May 24, 1931 Willi Ruge is endeavoring to take the first sky diving self portraits as he leaps from a plane with a parachute. Here he takes a photograph from his plane as his colleague Herr Boettcher leaves his seat in the other plane and moves to a position near the pilot in preparation to jump.

Representative types of British light aeroplanes flying over a typical 'modern' aerodrome. The green monoplane on the left is a Westland 'Widgeon', which is flying immediately above an Avro 'Avian' from the Lancs Aero Club. Slightly above to the right is a Blackburn 'Bluebird' from the Yorks Aero Club, which is flying beneath a Desoutter Sports Coupe, painted in orange and black, the colours of the National Flying Services. To the left is another Desoutter. The green and white biplane seen a

Lido, Flying boat 'Clio' on the lake with snow-capped Hermon 1934, Middle EastMount Hermon is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. Its summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon

Igor Sikorsky at the controls of the VS-300 helicopter. It lifts off the ground on one of its early test flights in Sep. 1939. Weights were hung from the landing gear struts to prevent it from rising to as the controls are tested.

Small-diameter wooden aircraft propellers, 1932. Creator: Unknown.

Spirit of St. Louis airplane ca. between 1909 and 1940.

Focke-Wulf F19a Ente plane, 1920s, (1932). Creator: Unknown.

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