With 5,710 hours total time since new, this 1959 Grumman HU-16 Albatross is no youngster. Its age – 62 years old – also point to the fact that this plane is an old-timer.

The Grumman HU-16 Albatross was powered by two Wright R-1820s engines, which each provided 1,425 horsepower giving the plane a maximum speed of 250 mph. It had a range of 1,650 miles and a ceiling ...

Say hello to the Grumman HU-16 Albatross; think of it as serving the same purpose as the Catalina did in the Second World War. It was an enormous twin-engined flying boat as opposed to a float ...

In the footage, Leno popped out of the nose of a Grumman HU-16 Albatross airplane as it flew over the Pacific Ocean.While hanging out of the aircraft at 147 mph, the TV personality — wearing his ...

TAVARES — When Stewart Lawrence was a kid, he lived on a sailboat, swimming, fishing and diving in the Bahamas. But his top memory was when a Grumman Albatross HU-16, owned by Chalk Internati… ...

The Grumman HU-16 Albatross was a large amphibious flying boat produced between 1949 and 1961 and was flown by the US Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard and other military forces around the world.

The dedication of a meticulously refurbished HU-16 Grumman Albatross airplane Friday at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station brought back memories to Anne Keller. There were happy ones, like how she ...

Amphibian Aerospace Industries (AAI) plans to produce a re-engined, updated version of the venerable Grumman HU-16 Albatross amphibian aircraft.The HU-16 was widely used from the 1950s to 1980s in ...

Only 59 were built before the plane morphed into the Grumman HU-16 Albatross. Another Grumman plane, this one a beautifully restored and maintained Grumman G-44 Widgeon, was also among the ...

CRESSON, Texas — Eighteen months ago, Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Matt Boyd started scouring the country for an HU-16 Albatross, a rather forgotten amphibious plane from the Cold War ...