The Grumman HU-16 Albatross was powered by two Wright R-1820s engines, which each provided 1,425 horsepower giving the plane a maximum speed of 250 mph. It had a range of 1,650 miles and a ceiling ...

The dedication of a meticulously refurbished HU-16 Grumman Albatross airplane Friday at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station brought back memories to Anne Keller. There were happy ones, like how she ...

But his top memory was when a Grumman Albatross HU-16, owned by Chalk International Airlines, landed in the water near him. The 63-foot-long “Zeus,” as they call it, with a wingspan of 98 feet ...

The Grumman HU-16 Albatross was a large amphibious flying boat produced between 1949 and 1961 and was flown by the US Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard and other military forces around the world.

Amphibian Aerospace Industries (AAI) plans to produce a re-engined, updated version of the venerable Grumman HU-16 Albatross amphibian aircraft. The HU-16 was widely used from the 1950s to 1980s ...

Be it the G-21 Goose, the G-44 Widgeon, the G-73 Mallard, or the enormous HU-16 Albatross, Grumman manufactured some of the finest and most reliable flying boats of World War II and slightly ...

It was manufactured from 1946-51. Only 59 were built before the plane morphed into the Grumman HU-16 Albatross. Another Grumman plane, this one a beautifully restored and maintained Grumman G-44 ...

From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., which has since become and the HU-16 Albatross, a large and impressive postwar plane that several branches of the U.S. military ...

US Coast Guard Grumman HU-16E Albatross amphibious aircraft at Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts. US Navy ...

On board the 1954 HU-16 Grumman Albatross were Buffett’s guests U2 frontman Bono, his wife Ali, and their children Jordan and Eve, along with Island Records producer Chris Blackwell. Before the ...