What is "floatplane"

Usage examples of "floatplane".

And tomorrow was Thanksgiving, which meant Delaney and Tucker had this week off from school and that his father had likely taken them to Portland in the floatplane as he did every year.

Grady and Ethan and the kids were gone in the floatplane, and Paul had shut off the phones to hide out with his girlfriend.

The man looked at it curiously, the elongated teardrop of high-pressure steel lying in its timber cradle not far from the floatplane dock.

The little floatplane shuddered as the prop spun and then settled down to a steady vibrating roar behind the silver circle.

Japanese container ships and a Cessna floatplane tied lo a short pier.

Short Stwenty-three Empire class flying boat Mercury carrying floatplane Maia.

I suppose he took his little floatplane back to some tiny lake deep in the heart of Beck-Lewis.

There was a little floatplane lying moored to a pontoon buoyed up with empty oil drums.

But other times when visiting the Cascades I flew straight in to the Halliday Arm by floatplane from Bella Bella.

It was a steadier drone, and suddenly I could see it, low down over the water, a floatplane flying up the inlet.

A power saw started up, sounding like the floatplane taking off, but intermittent, and there was the crash and thud of a tree going down.

It was then, with Edmundson there, a government-chartered floatplane at the quay, and Wolchak already being questioned, that I started forward.

The engine of the floatplane started up, the sound of it passing very close to us.

Cessna 106 floatplane taxiing down the Rio Negro toward the Barcelos dock.

In a state bigger than Texas, with most of its lands accessible only by floatplane, the wildernesses of Alaska made the wild places of the lower states seem like nothing more than Disney theme parks: domesticated, crowded, commercialized.