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A small boat could be part of general cargo, but that would typically just mean it's unloaded at an airport and transported to the nearest body of water by land infrastructure. This is not what I'm looking for.

Instead, is there any aircraft that can directly deploy a boat to (or retrieve one from) water?

I would imagine there are cases when moving a boat by plane could be useful, especially when there's little or no infrastructure available on land.

Does such an aircraft exist?

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A small boat could be part of general cargo, but that would typically just mean it's unloaded at an airport and transported to the nearest body of water by land infrastructure. This is not what I'm looking for.

Instead, is there any aircraft that can directly deploy a boat to (or retrieve one from) water?

I would imagine there are cases when moving a boat by plane could be useful, especially when there's little or no infrastructure available on land.

Does such an aircraft exist?

cargo seaplane

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A small boat could be part of general cargo, but that would typically just mean it's unloaded at an airport and transported to the nearest body of water by land infrastructure. This is not what I'm looking for.

Instead, is there any aircraft that can directly deploy a boat to (or retrieve one from) water?

I would imagine there are cases when moving a boat by plane could be useful, especially when there's little or no infrastructure available on land.

Does such an aircraft exist?

cargo seaplane

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Yes. During and after WW2 several aircraft were converted to serve as "Dumbo" aircraft, dropping boats or rafts near people in distress. Other models were used as well, but the B-17 were among the most prominent. Most were retired when the helicopter gradually took over rescue operations.

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It is quite common for float planes to carry canoes & kayaks, e.g. https://www.easyriderkayaks.com/canoespics/cub_scout13x.jpg

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Large enough helicopters do it. Above example is a Boeing CH-47 Chinook (businessinsider.com)

But since you have tagged it seaplane, not to my knowledge. It's often the other way around, seaplane tenders tending to seaplanes (or used to). (I take it by boat you don't mean the inflatable and/or small type, as those are not hard to transport.)

Catalina launching beaching gear (pinterest.com)

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  The Chinook can do more than lift boats. It can carry them in its "belly". Here is a video, courtesy of the USAF. More impressively, the Chinook can land on water and "swallow" a moving Zodiac boat, as shown in this video.
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The Fernic T-9 of 1929 was prepared for an Atlantic crossing and as a precaution had removable upper engine nacelles which could double as a life raft, including an outboard engine.

A less planned use of an airplane part as a boat occurred when in 1932 the Junkers W-33 of Hans Bertram and Adolf Klausmann crashed in a remote part of Western Australia. They removed one of the floats and made it into a boat for fishing and excursions.

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I would like to suggest the "Landseaire" flying yacht which carried boats under the wings as per this question.

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Yes. During and after WW2 several aircraft were converted to serve as "Dumbo" aircraft, dropping boats or rafts near people in distress. Other models were used as well, but the B-17 were among the most prominent. Most were retired when the helicopter gradually took over rescue operations.

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Yes. During and after WW2 several aircraft were converted to serve as "Dumbo" aircraft, dropping boats or rafts near people in distress. Other models were used as well, but the B-17 were among the most prominent. Most were retired when the helicopter gradually took over rescue operations.

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It is quite common for float planes to carry canoes & kayaks, e.g. https://www.easyriderkayaks.com/canoespics/cub_scout13x.jpg

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It is quite common for float planes to carry canoes & kayaks, e.g. https://www.easyriderkayaks.com/canoespics/cub_scout13x.jpg

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It is quite common for float planes to carry canoes & kayaks, e.g. https://www.easyriderkayaks.com/canoespics/cub_scout13x.jpg

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Large enough helicopters do it. Above example is a Boeing CH-47 Chinook (businessinsider.com)

But since you have tagged it seaplane, not to my knowledge. It's often the other way around, seaplane tenders tending to seaplanes (or used to). (I take it by boat you don't mean the inflatable and/or small type, as those are not hard to transport.)

Catalina launching beaching gear (pinterest.com)

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  The Chinook can do more than lift boats. It can carry them in its "belly". Here is a video, courtesy of the USAF. More impressively, the Chinook can land on water and "swallow" a moving Zodiac boat, as shown in this video.
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  Here is a video of a Chinook "swallowing" a SEAL Zodiac.
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  – Rodrigo de Azevedo
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  Holy moly - that view from inside the bay of the Chinook, when the water comes pouring in through the back. That is some amazing flying!
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Large enough helicopters do it. Above example is a Boeing CH-47 Chinook (businessinsider.com)

But since you have tagged it seaplane, not to my knowledge. It's often the other way around, seaplane tenders tending to seaplanes (or used to). (I take it by boat you don't mean the inflatable and/or small type, as those are not hard to transport.)

Catalina launching beaching gear (pinterest.com)

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  The Chinook can do more than lift boats. It can carry them in its "belly". Here is a video, courtesy of the USAF. More impressively, the Chinook can land on water and "swallow" a moving Zodiac boat, as shown in this video.
  $endgroup$
  – Rodrigo de Azevedo
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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
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  Here is a video of a Chinook "swallowing" a SEAL Zodiac.
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  – Rodrigo de Azevedo
  3 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
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  Holy moly - that view from inside the bay of the Chinook, when the water comes pouring in through the back. That is some amazing flying!
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  – Ben Hull
  1 hour ago
  

  
  
  
  

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Large enough helicopters do it. Above example is a Boeing CH-47 Chinook (businessinsider.com)

But since you have tagged it seaplane, not to my knowledge. It's often the other way around, seaplane tenders tending to seaplanes (or used to). (I take it by boat you don't mean the inflatable and/or small type, as those are not hard to transport.)

Catalina launching beaching gear (pinterest.com)

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The Fernic T-9 of 1929 was prepared for an Atlantic crossing and as a precaution had removable upper engine nacelles which could double as a life raft, including an outboard engine.

A less planned use of an airplane part as a boat occurred when in 1932 the Junkers W-33 of Hans Bertram and Adolf Klausmann crashed in a remote part of Western Australia. They removed one of the floats and made it into a boat for fishing and excursions.

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The Fernic T-9 of 1929 was prepared for an Atlantic crossing and as a precaution had removable upper engine nacelles which could double as a life raft, including an outboard engine.

A less planned use of an airplane part as a boat occurred when in 1932 the Junkers W-33 of Hans Bertram and Adolf Klausmann crashed in a remote part of Western Australia. They removed one of the floats and made it into a boat for fishing and excursions.

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The Fernic T-9 of 1929 was prepared for an Atlantic crossing and as a precaution had removable upper engine nacelles which could double as a life raft, including an outboard engine.

A less planned use of an airplane part as a boat occurred when in 1932 the Junkers W-33 of Hans Bertram and Adolf Klausmann crashed in a remote part of Western Australia. They removed one of the floats and made it into a boat for fishing and excursions.

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