Best aircraft for this mission?

Flight time would be about 1 hour, 80-120 miles.

Some candidates I've been looking at a
Max Holste "Broussard"
Grumman G-44 Widgeon
DHC Beaver

The water landings will be in a protected cove or leeward side of an
island not in the surf.

A surf company has taken this on a much larger scale with an Albatross.

http://www.billabongclipper.com/clipper/main_page.html

What is a "Broussard" ? Never heard of that one.

On 9-Jul-2005, "waterdog" wrote:

Flight time would be about 1 hour, 80-120 miles.


So, assuming you won't be able to refuel at the destination you are looking
at maybe fuel for 3 hours with comfortable reserve. Say, 42 gallons for a
Cessna 206. That's 252 lbs, so what you would need is a 206 with amphibious
floats and a useful load of about 1250 lbs. I have heard about some Wipline
conversions that will ALMOST deliver that number. If that won't do I think
you are looking at a DHC Beaver, which would definitely be a handful for a
low time pilot.

The other thing with a 206 is, how many people are you going to carry? To
haul the surfboards, you will probably have to pull out some of the 6 seats.

--
-Elliott Drucker

wrote:

The other thing with a 206 is, how many people are you going to carry? To
haul the surfboards, you will probably have to pull out some of the 6 seats.

They sling canoe's on the floats, seems like you could do the same with
the surfboards. Just keep them away from the exhaust, thats how that
plane carrying plywood in Alaska caught on fire...

I'm looking to carry 3 or 4 people including the pilot..