Changing times are leading to the renaissance of regional air travel and new market viability for amphibious aircrafts. Commercial aviation is already the most global of businesses. Official Airline Guide data shows that the global network connects all countries in the world: 3,190 cities and 3,250 airports. Connectivity between these airports, which has doubled since the early 1980s, continues to grow, and more of the world’s people from both emerging and mature economies use aviation in their daily lives.

Seaplanes are aircrafts that can take off from and land on water. Amphibious seaplanes are seaplanes that can take off from and land on both water and/or land.Seaplanes fall into two distinct categories, floatplane aircrafts and hull aircrafts or flying boats.

Seaplanes and flying boats have a rich and storied history that supported the development of aviation at a time when airports as we now know them did not exist. The first successfully powered seaplane flight occurred in 1910 in Marseilles, France just 7 years following the Wright Brothers first flight. Henri Fabre piloted an invention he called the Hydravion (French for seaplane/floatplane). Fabre’s aircraft was equipped with plywood floats that enabled the lightweight plane to take off from and land safely on water.