{"id":141712,"date":"2024-10-19T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aircraft-seaplane-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-10-19T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T08:00:14","slug":"which-aircraft-are-commonly-converted-to-seaplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=141712","title":{"rendered":"Which Aircraft Are Commonly Converted To Seaplanes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of aircraft that can be equipped with floats instead of wheeled             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257119\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/landing-gear\/\"  >landing gear<\/a><\/span>. In the 1930s and 1940s, it was much more common to see aircraft aircraft take off from the water than today (for example,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2023953\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-314-yankee-clipper-first-transatlantic-flight-story\/\" >Pan Am&#8217;s famous Clippers flying boats<\/a><\/span> as airport infrastructure didn&#8217;t exist yet or was in its infancy). Today, it&#8217;s mostly small aircraft like the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"278631\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/cessna-caravan\/\"  >Cessna Caravan<\/a><\/span>, DHC-6             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257713\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/twin-otter\/\"  >Twin Otter<\/a><\/span>, Cessna 182\/206, and others routinely equipped with floats or otherwise land on the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cessna produces many of the utility planes that are regularly converted into seaplanes, but it is not the only game in town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,3714,416,714],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-floatplane","category-private-aviation","category-seaplanes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141713,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141712\/revisions\/141713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}