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.

A book written for children aged 7 years and older, based on the design of the Big Book with full-page illustrations throughout and additional puzzle pages, is now available to buy.

A 445mm x 890mm book has been created which tells the story of Waterbird, the first aeroplane to take off successfully from water in the UK, and how a replica was made – and flew – over a century later. The Big Book will be kept at Windermere Library downstairs with...

The Clerget engine used by Oscar Gnosspelius in Gnosspelius No. 2 at Windermere is now on display at the Lakeland Motor Museum, in the Campbell Bluebird building, with details of its remarkable survival story.

The story behind the poster for Wings Over Windermere 2024 is related in this article which will be published shortly in the Guild of Aviation Artists’ Quarterly News magazine.

We are delighted to announce that Flying Displays will take place on 5th and 6th September 2025, subject to Permissions being granted by the Civil Aviation Authority and the Lake District National Park Authority. For details, please click here.