MichaelP wrote:You can always go for the economy model.
I did enjoy splashing about in this, and there were two in Britain at one time.
As a small boy I remember climbing around the work-in-progress Volmer being built by Viv Bellamy at Lands End. Wish I could recall meeting him, I must have as my dad knew him. The other Volmer was at Biggin for a while.
Re Connies, there are two Biafran survivors on Sao Tome, forming part of a restaurant - if only they could be put back into the air...
Sandringhams - the twin to Kermit's is at the Solent Sky museum in Southampton - if Genghis has access to a floatplane, he could add that to his list of visits, albeit I've no idea where he could drop anchor at Southampton docks. The museum is just a short walk from the Itchen toll bridge.
I think I saw one of the two Antilles Air Boats Sandringhams flying over Southampton Water while staying with my brother near Hamble in the summer of '77 - very distant something droning with a big red fin. Charles Blair and Maureen O'Hara bought one or other over to the UK several summers running. Also saw my first Catalina flying over and Elvis died during the same stay!