The good news is that you can register for an online Zoom lecture by Ian Gee. Details are here. The not-so-good news is that in the UK it starts at midnight!

We are delighted to announce that Wings Over Windermere 2026 will be on 4th and 5th September 2026 subject to permissions by the Civil Aviation Authority and the Lake District National Park Authority. Full details are here.

At our initiative, a Royal Aeronautical Society Event, comprising of a series of Workshops, was attended by 60 Windermere Primary Schoolchildren at BAE Systems, Samlesbury during Science Week.

We are delighted that Sir Andrew Pulford GCB CBE DL has been appointed as our new President.

There is now a Book of Remembrance on this website dedicated to the 20 pilots associated with Windermere who gave their lives during 1914-1918. Flight Lieutenant John Hume, awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, died on this day in 1916. Following training at...

We are very grateful to David Calow for donation of his crayon picture depicting Waterhen flying by the Ferry House Hotel, which was highly commended by the Guild of Aviation Artists.

This article appeared in the Aeroplane magazine of November 2025. Like the new video on the home page, it focuses on some of the individuals involved in the project.

On September 5, the Red Arrows and a Spitfire performed flypasts and the replica Waterbird and Husky G-ODIP carried out public flying displays. In addition, on September 6 there were flying displays by the replica Waterbird and Husky.

We now have Permissions from the Civil Aviation Authority and the Lake District National Park Authority. The Poster, by David Calow, is here. Full details are at this link.

The Festival of the Lake will be held on Saturday 28 June at Windermere Jetty Museum from 10am to 8pm. We will have a stall next to the Old Fire Station. Also, we will be giving a talk at 4:00pm at the Wet Dock Old Fire Station about Seaplanes at Windermere 1911-2025.

Waterbird’s Story book has received a 4 star review in The Aeroplane magazine of June 2025.

Film of a Tiger Moth seaplane which came to Low Wood Bay, Windermere in 1979 has been discovered. Many thanks to Roger Mallinson MBE.  

Windermere Science Festival is on 10th and 11th May. We will be there at a gazebo next to the old fire station. We look forward to sharing the important history and engineering of seaplanes at Windermere which goes back to 1911, including about Waterbird which was the...

115 years ago today, near Marseilles, Henri Fabre achieved the first successful flight in the world from water.

We celebrate International Women’s Day by saluting Gertrude Bacon, who on 15 July 1912 at Windermere became the first woman in the world to fly in a hydro-aeroplane. This is an extract from our children’s book Waterbird’s Story.