page_title: List of seaplanes and amphibious aircraft
section_title: United Kingdom
hierarchical_section_title: List of seaplanes and amphibious aircraft / United Kingdom
caption_attribution_description: English: The Blackburn Iris Mk III, S1263, before conversion to a Mk V. Flight - picture scanned by me Ian Dunster 14:25, 5 January 2006 (UTC) from the 1263 - The Story Of A Blackburn Iris article in the December 1973 issue of Aeroplane Monthly and credited to: Flight This image is for illustrative purposes within the linked article(s) and is of a reduced size and quality from the original. Where known, the source and original artist/photographer and/or copyright owner are credited.
context_page_description: The following is a list of seaplanes and amphibious aircraft, which includes floatplanes and flying boats, by country of origin.
  Seaplanes are any aircraft that has the capability of landing on water while amphibious aircraft are equipped with wheels to alight on land, as well as being able to land on the water. Flying boats rely on the fuselage or hull for buoyancy, while floatplanes rely on external pontoons or floats. Some experimental aircraft used specially designed skis to skim across the water but did not always have a corresponding ability to float.
  This list does not include ekranoplans, 'Wing-In-Ground-effect', water-skimmers, wingships or similar vehicles reliant on ground effect.
context_section_description: AD Flying Boat – two-seat patrol/reconnaissance flying boat (1915)
  AD Navyplane – two-seat patrol/reconnaissance floatplane (1916)
  AD Type 1000 – biplane floatplane torpedo-bomber floatplane (1915)
  Airspeed AS.30 Queen Wasp – pilotless target floatplane (1937)
  Avro Type D – two-seat biplane floatplane (1911)
  
      
  Beardmore Inverness – monoplane flying boat (1925)
  Blackburn B-20 – reconnaissance flying boat (1940)
  Blackburn Iris – five-seat long-range reconnaissance flying boat (1926)
  Blackburn Nautilus – two-seat biplane fleet spotter/fighter floatplane (1929)
  Blackburn Perth – five-seat long-range reconnaissance flying boat (1934)
  Blackburn Sydney – three-engine, monoplane reconnaissance flying boat (1931)
  Blackburn T.B. – two-seat zeppelin interceptor floatplane (1915)
  Blackburn Type L – twin-float seaplane (1915)
  Blackburn Velos – two-seat coastal defence seaplane (1925)
  de Havilland DH.50 – single-engine transport and bush plane floatplane (1923)
  de Havilland DH.60 Moth – two-seat sportplane floatplane (1925)
  de Havilland DH.61 Giant Moth – single-engine transport and bush plane floatplane (1927)
  de Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth – 4-seat light transport and bush plane floatplane (1932)
  de Havilland Hornet Moth – single-engine 2-seat cabin biplane floatplane (1934)
  de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide – twin-engine 9-seat feeder-liner floatplane variant (1934)
  de Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly – twin-engine floatplane (1935)
  English Electric Ayr – three-seat coastal patrol flying boat (1924)
  English Electric Kingston – reconnaissance flying boat (1924)
  
        
  Fairey III – spotter/reconnaissance floatplane (1918)
  Fairey Campania – spotter/reconnaissance floatplane (1917)
  Fairey Flycatcher – single-seat fighter floatplane (1922)
  Fairey Fremantle – long-range reconnaissance biplane floatplane (1924)
  Fairey Hamble Baby – single-seat biplane scout floatplane (1917)
  Fairey N.4 – five-seat long-range twin-engine biplane reconnaissance flying boat (1923)
  Fairey N.9 – two-seat experimental seaplane (1918)
  Fairey N.10 – two-seat patrol seaplane (1917)
  Fairey Pintail – two-seat fighter/reconnaissance biplane amphibian (1920)
  Fairey S.9/30 – biplane torpedo bomber floatplane (1934)
  Fairey Seafox – two-seat spotter reconnaissance floatplane (1936)
  Fairey Seal – two-seat reconnaissance floatplane (1930)
  Fairey Swordfish – biplane torpedo bomber floatplane (1934)
  
      
  Felixstowe F.1 – biplane fighter reconnaissance flying boat (1910s)
  Felixstowe F.2 – biplane reconnaissance flying boat (1917)
  Felixstowe F.3 – biplane anti-submarine patrol flying-boat (1917)
  Felixstowe F.4 Fury – long-range triplane patrol flying boat (1918–1919)
  Felixstowe F.5 – biplane reconnaissance flying boat (1918)
  Felixstowe Porte Baby – biplane patrol flying boat (1916)
  
     
  Gloster II – racing floatplane for 1924 Schneider Trophy (1924)
  Gloster III – racing seaplane for 1925 Schneider Trophy (1925)
  Gloster IV – racing seaplane for 1927 Schneider Trophy (1927)
  Gloster VI – racing seaplane for 1929 Schneider Trophy (1929)
  Gloster Goring – prototype bomber, tested as a seaplane (1927)
  
     
  Hawker Dantorp – 3-seat bomber floatplane (1925)
  Hawker Osprey – 2-seat fighter/reconnaissance biplane floatplane (1930)
  Hamble River H.L.1 Seaplane – floatplane (1914)
  Lakes Hydro-monoplane – floatplane (1913)
  Lakes Seabird – floatplane (1912)
  Lakes Waterbird – floatplane (1911)
  Lakes Waterhen – floatplane (1912)
  Mann Egerton Type B – seaplane (1916)
  Martinsyde F6 – transport floatplane conversion (1918)
  Norman Thompson N.T.2B – two-seat biplane training flying boat (1917)
  Norman Thompson N.T.4 – twin-engined flying boat (1916)
  Norman Thompson N.1B – prototype armed patrol flying boat (1917)
  Norman Thompson N.2C – twin-engined flying boat (1918)
  Phoenix Cork – reconnaissance flying boat (1918)
  Sage Type 4 – seaplane patrol aircraft/trainer (1917)
  
     
  Saro A.7 Severn – flying boat (1930)
  Saro A.14 – prototype flying boat (1928)
  Saro A.17 Cutty Sark – lightweight amphibious flying boat (1929)
  Saro A.19 Cloud – twin-engined flying boat (1930)
  Saro Windhover – three-engined flying boat wi
caption: Blackburn Iris Mk.III patrol flying boat
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