Warbird Information Exchange

Hi Folks,
I'm doing some research into Grumman's finest (no, not the canoes, nor the fighters, not the spacecraft...) - their waterbirds; namely Grumman Duck, Widgeon, Goose, Mallard and Albatross.

I've found some good websites out there, but I wondered if anyone had any info, good sites, pics etc they'd like to share. The Grumman seaplanes seem neglected to me...

Cheers
James K

There are some good Yahoo message boards out there with the type your looking for, and some very knowledgeable people on them.

For the Duck visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GrummanDuck/

Albatross: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grummanalbatross/

Goose: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grummangoose/

Mallard: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grummanmallard/

Widgeon:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grummanwidgeon/

These last four Grumman sites have links to each other on them.

For straight Albatross information/production lists or training visit: http://www.hu-16.com/

Just want to see some pictures, I put some up a few month's ago at: http://www.norcalaahs.org/lakemead2004.htm

This should keep you busy.............Roger

Many thanks Roger.
As you say, I'll be busy.

Hi James,

I have ALOT of Grumman Seaplane pictures. I am a big fan of them too. Have flown in a friends Widgeon and have dreams of spending winters in the Bahamas in "my" Goose! Just a dream but... flying around all those amazing beaches... just wearing swim trunks and Hawaiian shirts. Of course summertime would be spent up in Alaska flying around in the Goose!

I'll email you some of the pics and post a few here.

There are a few Albatross photos in this thread, provided my web host hasn't gone down again.

Ok... here is one shot... this is what made me dream about spending summer in Alaska... a turbine Goose and an Albatross...



And here is a shot I took of my friends Widgeon. Yes... I was flying alittle low in the 170!



Enjoy James... and other Grumman enthusiasts!

Hi Dan,

Funny thing in common here, as a few years ago, I went up for an air to air shoot at the Seaplane Splash-In at Clear Lake a few years ago. I too went up in my friends 170, but our target plane couldn't get started, and then I found out I missed a ride in a McKinnon turbine Goose, to boot. Their crew looked for me but I was nowhere to be found

No, the 170 wasn't on floats, we took off from nearby Lampson Airport............Roger

If anybody is interested, I took some photos of the turbine Mallard used by Chalks Airlines landing in Bimini, Bahamas. I'd be happy to email them or post them if anybody needs it.

On the above mentioned Yahoo mallard board, would definitely like to see them!! As far as I know, to post them here, you must first put them on a web address somewhere else...........

There are lots of references to Jimmy Buffett's Albatross, Hemisphere Dancer. She is now "preserved in Margaritaville Orlando (outdoors )
He flew her for many yrs. Prior to that he had a Grumman Widgeon that he crashed on takeoff out of Buzzards Bay, MA in early 90s.
http://www.margaritaville.com/adventures/dancer.htm
http://www.geocities.com/pittmantlh/JBP ... lanes.html
http://www.lpba.org/jb2000.html

These folks below at Mirabella help Buffett with maint and flight crew, but suffered damage in the recent FL hurricanes. They have their own Albatross and work on restoring other Grumman seaplanes.
http://www.mirabellaaviation.com/

Chalks Ocean Airways out of Miami/Ft Lauderdale still flys Mallards.
Flew them several yrs ago. It was a total hoot! A dream come true.
http://www.chalksoceanairways.com
Check out their photo gallery of Grummans they have had.

James,
Here are some pictures I posted a while back of the International Seaplane Fly-in at Greenville, Maine. There is some nice Grumman stuff here.
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIn ... 434441&f=0
Don

Try this:

http://www.grummanamphibians.com

try squadron signal publishing out of carrollton texas i believe??? their web address is probably squadronsignal.com or squadronsignalpublishing.com. they do walk around layouts of 100's of warbirds from ww1 to current. prices usually are around 8 to 10 bucks. lots of period detailed pics, diagrams history etc. these books are as comprehensive as they get, no detail is spared. i have the duck book, yours for 10.00 bucks + shipping, let me know regards, tom

whoops!!! i have the squadron signal albatross book too!! same price. thanks tom

Hi Tom,
Thanks for the tip. I'm familiar with the Squadron Signal books.

In fact we are looking to publish ourselves, and we aim to go into a bit more depth that SqSig; have a look at www.mmpbooks.biz to see what we do.

Cheers!