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Amphibious Plane Trip Plans. Wild Maine Lake-views in only an Hour or Two in the Fastest Experimental Aircraft in its Class

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Amphibious Plane Trip Plans. Wild Maine Lake-views in only an Hour or Two in the Fastest Experimental Aircraft in its Class

Steve — Super Seawind Maine Wild Lakes and Rivers Trip Planned for 2022

The big four flights start with Gigantic Moosehead Lake! Within its 117.9 square miles is the town of Greenville at the southernmost point. Streets are filled with shops, lodging, and restaurants. It’s a great summertime stop for overnighting with friends or family. The lake is stunningly scenic and often breezy to cool you on rare hot days. Greenville has something else amphibious plane pilots love before they put a cold glass of beer to their lips; an airplane ramp to airplane tiedown ramp space! With a Seawind, all you need to do is extend the landing gear and drive up the ramp to the parking area, tie the airplane down as you would at any airport, unload your stuff, and head out for your lodging and that cold beer.

Moosehead Lake.

Wake up to a Maine breakfast of blueberry pancakes stacked high, hot coffee, and eggs any way you want it then you head out for a day pursuing a long-held dream – catching the biggest fish of a lifetime. The next day, it’s back into your captain’s seat of your amphibious plane. You taxi into the water, raise your landing gear, go through your take-off the checklist, raise the water rudder – and away you go! My Super Seawind it takes only about 32 seconds after adding power before it breaks water and easily climbs at 1,000 FPM. Next destination? First, we fly north over the 40 or so miles of Moosehead Lake then turn NNE toward the Allagash Wilderness. Now we transition the Seawind to stealth mode; low power and low 5-blade propeller RPM.

FLYING OVER CHAMBERLAIN LAKE:

We soon fly over Chamberlain Lake for mile after mile of spectacular scenery. We then follow the Allagash waterway northward. In just 50 miles. In fewer than 30 minutes, we will transverse this otherwise 4-day canoe trip and tip our wings to paddlers hundreds of feet below. By now, we will likely have several moose photos ready to marvel at dinnertime near the Canadian border. Turning Eastward, we soon arrive at Northern Aroostook Reginal Airport, KFVE, tie down and head to nearby Lakeview Restaurant, or optionally, cross into Edmundston, Canada. That night, we stay at the Days Inn just over the St John River in Edmundston, Canada where our U.S. dollars buy more.

Optional:

Canoe the Saint John River through the first part of the Allagash Wilderness – even if for only ten miles. It will still be spectacular!

Baxter State Park for paddling, camping, and hiking Down east.

In just a few – always too short days, we have traveled over what may be the world’s most scenic waterways – and in an amphibious airplane like the Super Seawind amphibious plane. That’s flying Super Seawind style. How’s that for a bucket list trip?