The Grumman Corporation, late-comers to the game, introduced a pair of light utility amphibious aircraft - the Goose and the Widgeon during the late 1930s for the civilian market.
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These evolved throughout the interwar period to ultimately culminate in the post World War 2 Supermarine Seagull, which was to have replaced the wartime Walrus and the Sea Otter but was overtaken by advances in helicopters.
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The ACME Anser was an amphibious twin-jet utility aircraft that was developed in the United States by Air Craft Marine Engineering in 1958.
It purchased the rights to the Sea Hawker amphibious aircraft from Aero Composites in 1988 and marketed them for a short time before being forced into receivership amidst bad publicity that the design had developed.
Irkut has a portfolio of trainer and amphibious aircraft projects and competes in the onboard electronics and avionics niche.
The name Altair was chosen as it is not only the name of the alpha star in the Eagle constellation, but also because "Al" is the first part of the name of the A-40 Albatross amphibious aircraft, whose layout was the development basis for the creation of the Be-200, "ta" stands for Taganrog, and "ir" stands for Irkutsk.
In 1929 Acadia rescued the crew of a crashed Sikorsky amphibious aircraft named the "Untin Bowler" who were attempting a round-trip to Europe across Greenland and Iceland sponsored by the Chicago Tribune until the aircraft was destroyed by ice off the tip of Labrador.
The ShinMaywa US-2 is a large STOL amphibious aircraft designed for air-sea rescue work.
The airport site at Fort Chimo was located and surveyed on 12 July 1941 by a USAAF team under Captain Elliott Roosevelt, operating by amphibious aircraft out of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Sikorsky S-38, a 1928 American twin-engined 8-seat amphibious aircraft
Sikorsky S-39, a 1930s smaller, single-engine version of the S-38 light amphibious aircraft
Sikorsky S-43, a 1930s eighteen place twin engine amphibious aircraft