Vought OS2U Kingfisher taxiing after making a water landing near Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida.
Date: March 1943
United States Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation: link, link
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Noah's Island, Alaska || Photo: Jimmy Dieffenderfer
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Hydravion de reconnaissance maritime Vought OS2U Kingfisher – 1941
Le Vought OS2U Kingfisher fut le premier hydravion de reconnaissance maritime catapulté de la marine américaine, mis en service en août 1940.
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Vought OS2U Kingfisher. Observation and Scout aircraft. Mounted on the catapult of USS Miami (CL-89). 2 March 1945.
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Vought OS2U Kingfisher salvaged and fully restored and ready to be put on display aboard Battleship North Carolina memorial at Wilmington, North Carolina. "The plane was dedicated on June 25, 1971. Salvaged from Mount Buxton, Calvert Island, British Columbia, in the spring of 1964, after having been there since it crashed there on August 20, 1942. The OS2U was rebuilt by the members of the Vought Aeronautics' quarter century club."
NHHC: NH 73763
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Cessna 185 floatplane flying over the Alaska Range with Mt. McKinley in the background.
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Schwatka Lake, Whitehorse
Schwatka Lake is a reservoir created by the damming of the Yukon River in Whitehorse, Yukon, completed in 1958. The dam provides electrical power generation and is operated by the Yukon Energy Corporation. The White Horse Rapids, which gave the city its name, are now under the lake. The lake was named after Frederick Schwatka, a US Army Lieutenant who was first to explore the total length of the Yukon River.
A fish ladder has been constructed around the hydroelectric dam to allow the passage of Chinook salmon to their spawning grounds upstream of Whitehorse. The Chinook salmon that pass the dam have the longest freshwater migration route of any salmon, over 3,000 kilometres to the mouth of the Yukon River in the Bering Sea.
Whitehorse Water Aerodrome, a float plane base, is located on the lake. The lake has been the city's water supply for some years, but the city is now converting to relying entirely on aquifers, partly due to the threat of pollution from fuel spills and other activities by people in the watershed of the lake. Previously, there had been talk of moving the float plane base or the water supply to Fish Lake, which is impractically located to the west over a winding, steep road.
Source: Wikipedia
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A Vought OS2U Kingfisher being loaded with a pair of yellow practice bombs, at a naval air station.
Date: early 1942
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-K-13493
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Arado Ar 196 of Seenotstaffel (Marine Rescue Squadron) 6 (K3+CO), of Stab/Aufkl.Gr (Staff, Reconnaissance Group) 126, being catapult launched, the Mediterranean, date unknown. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich
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Slapped some watercolor on the orca plane cause I still have my head in the clouds with the idea of maybe trying to maintain & eventually fly those ultra cute floatplanes in the PNW 👉👈
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Rogožarski SIM-XIV-01. Yugoslav scout floatplane. First flew in 1938
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