You put it on floats? Really?

marine air · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2019 2:03 pm

A friend is rebuilding an Aeronca L-3. He wants to put it on floats. Does anyone know of any L-3's or other early L-birds on floats?

raconnel · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2019 2:30 pm

L-4 floatplanes in Italy.

Richard

Scott Rose · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2019 3:36 pm

Nice Richard!
:drink3:

marine air · **Posted:** Thu Mar 07, 2019 8:25 pm

Wow Richard! exactly what we were hoping to see. Thanks.

JohnB · **Posted:** Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:07 am

marine air wrote:

A friend is rebuilding an Aeronca L-3. He wants to put it on floats. Does anyone know of any L-3's or other early L-birds on floats?

As seen above, the L-4 ended up on floats (in a book there is a photo of a post-war-marked L-4 on floats), but I can't recall seeing a L-2-3-6 on floats during their service use.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7879

These two photos are probably not what you were hoping to see. A Piper L-4 Grasshopper with floats sinking in water.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7879

Here's a happier L-4. USAF Piper L-4J Grasshopper 45-55233 on floats

raconnel · **Posted:** Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:55 pm

Great stuff, Mark! I noticed that even the "happier" L-4 has a float with a banged up bow. The floats on that one are a different style too.

Richard

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 08, 2019 11:36 pm

Scott WRG Editor wrote:

Photograph of an XSB2C-2 Helldiver configured as a seaplane taken on September 29, 1942.
[Source: National Museum Of Naval Aviation]

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Scott WRG Editor wrote:

Supermarine Spitfire on floats
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Lon Moer · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2019 1:41 am

O-47A on floats

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An experimental Douglas TBD-1A Devastator floatplane in 1939.

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Short S.20 Mercury (G-ADHJ) of the Imperial Airways was a Piggy Back Long Range Seaplane/Flying Boat Combination Produced to Provide a Reliable Long Range Air Transport Service to the US and the Far Reaches of the British Empire and the Commonwealth

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Kyleb · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2019 10:18 am

Lon Moer wrote:

Scott WRG Editor wrote:

Photograph of an XSB2C-2 Helldiver configured as a seaplane taken on September 29, 1942.
[Source: National Museum Of Naval Aviation]

Test pilot report: "If you thought the stock version flew like crap, you ain't seen nuthin' yet."

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Sat Mar 09, 2019 4:48 pm

Most people have seen these before.

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Michel Lemieux · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2019 1:28 pm

Lot's of interesting never seen before (for me at least) floats and skis coversions

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/494/Anything-But-Wheels.aspx

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

These, from my Latin American aircraft photo collection. Whenever the photographer or credit-claimant is known, it is identified in the photo title.

Saludos,

Tulio

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

And, one more, a Ford Trimotor for the Colombian Military:

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