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| S | Publication | Issue | Title/Author | Remarks |
| W | Aero (US) | 1970 Jan/Feb | Water
Flying; by John Schmidt |
Photos: N6652K. |
| W | Aero Digest (US) | 1945 Dec 15 | ? | ? |
| O | Aero Digest (US) | 1946 Oct | Noteworthy
Landing Gear Types (Part 2); editorial. |
5 pgs. Presentation of landing gear designs, including Electrol for Seabee. |
| O | Aeromodeller
(UK)
|
1949 May | Republic Seabee - H. J. Towner's 53½ ins. Flying Scale Model | 4 pgs. Article and scale model plans for Republic Seabee. |
| O | Aeromodeller (UK) | 1949 May | Republic
Seabee - Aircraft described No. 19; by E. J. Riding |
2 pgs. Description and scale drawing- Photos: N87461, G-AJVO, G-AJVP. |
| O | Aeroplane, The (UK) | 1947 Mar 7 | Seaborne
in The Seabee; by Squadron Leader T. S. Wade. |
5
pgs. PIREP and comprehensive description of the Seabee,
including cutaway drawings. Photos: NC87591. |
| O | Air-Britain Digest (UK) | 1988 Aug-Sep | British
Civil Marine Aircraft 1946 - 1988; by Keith Cruttenden |
6 pgs. Comprehensive list of all British seaplanes, flying boats and amphibians. |
| C | Aircraft Builder (US) | 1984 Winter | Aqua
Air Car; by Don Dwiggins |
4 pgs. Rollout description of Spencer S-14 Air Car Jr. Photos: N111DA, N14NX, Spence. |
| O | Air
Facts (US)
|
1946 Oct | The
Seabee; by Leighton Collins |
20
pgs. PIREP. Photos: NC87457, NC87464. Cover: NC87457. |
| O | Air Facts (US) | 1947 Feb | How
the Seabee Works, Part 1; by Wolfgang Langweische |
14
pgs. PIREP Photo: NC87467. |
| O | Air Facts (US) | 1947 Mar | How
the Seabee Works, Part 2; by Wolfgang Langweische |
10 pgs. PIREP |
| W | Air Force (US) | 1946 Mar | Introduction
to...; ? |
|
| W | Air
Force (US)
|
1947 Mar | - | Cover only |
| W | Air News w/ Air Tech | 1945 Sep | Flying Fisherman | 1 pg. Photos featuring NX41816. |
| O | Air News w/ Air Tech | 1946 Feb | Air Tech Presents the Republic Seabee. | 5 pgs. Techincal description of Seabee (prototype). Photos: NX87451. |
| W | Air Power (US) | 1974 Jul | Republic
History; by ? |
Republic history including RC-1, RC-2, RC-3, P-47, etc. |
| O | Air Progress (US) | 1966 Apr | STOL Performance With The Stodgy Seabee? | 3
pgs. Short description with photos. Photos: N87589. |
| W | Air Progress (US) | 1972 May | Adventures
Aboard A Floating Flying Summerhouse; by Richard Bach |
Photos: N6468K. |
| O | Air Progress (US) | 1975 May | Son
of SeaBee - Spencer's Tiara-powered Air Car; by Peter Lert, photos by Bruce Benton |
7 pgs. PIREP on the Tiara-powered Spencer S-12-E Air Car. Photos: N111DA. Cover: N111DA. |
| O | Air Progress (US) | 1975 May | Spence
'N' Andy: The Odd Couple; by Andy Shane. |
2 pgs. The story of Spence and Andy. |
| O | Air Progress (US) | 1988 Sep | Twin
Bee - Stalking the elusive multi-engine sea rating with a United
Consultants' UC-1 Twin Bee; by Peter Lert, photos by Lert and Peter Breining. |
10 pgs. Photos: N87589. Cover: N87589. |
| O | Air Progress (US) | 1992 Jul | UC-1
Twin Bee; by John W. Conrad, photos by ? |
8 pgs. Description and PIREP. Photos: N77GT. Cover: N77GT. |
| O | Air Progress Aviation Review (US) | 1979 Winter | Mr
Spencer & His Aircar; by Dr. Ginsburge |
4 pgs. P. H. Spencer story. Photos: NX29098, NX41816, N36WT, N6201K, N11DA |
| W | Air Trails (US) | 1946 Mar | Introduction
to...; |
|
| O | Air Trails Pictorial (US) | 1945 Jan | Thunderbolt Amphibian - Republic's New Personal Amphibian... | 1 pg. Drawings of RC-1. |
| O | Air Trails Pictorial (US) | 1946 Apr | Low-cost Private Planes; by Alfred Marchev | 8
pgs. Simplified design, better engineering and tooling are the keys... Photos: NX41816 |
| O | Air Trails Pictorial (US) | 1946 Aug | Republic
Seabee; by Beverly D. Smith |
5 pgs. Scale model of Seabee NX41816. Plans. |
| O | Air Trails Pictorial (US) | 1948 Feb | Seadrome
at The Soo; by Douglas J. Ingelis |
3 veterans start a seaplane business ("Great Lakes Skyways"), using two Seabees. |
| O | Air Trails (US) | 1947 Mar | - | Cover only. |
| O | Air World (US) | 1946 Mar | Spencer,
Man Behind The Seabee; by Seth Babits |
3
pgs. Biography on P. H. Spencer. Photos: NX41816 |
| O | Air
World (US)
|
1947 Jan | The
Winner Takes A Plane; by editor. |
3 pgs. Capt. John T. McGeogehan wins a Seabee on the Air World private plane contest. Photo: Cover + N???? |
| C | Aircraft Production (UK) | 1946 Oct | Design for Low-cost Production; by Alfred Z. Boyajian. | 8 pgs. Detailed technical discussion of the Republic Seabee designed for low-cost production. |
| O | AOPA
Pilot (US)
|
1966 Feb | - | Cover only. Photo: N6113K. |
| O | AOPA Pilot (US) | 1960 Sep | Twin Engines For The Seabee | Short news article on the Twin Bee. Photo: N87589 |
| C | AOPA Pilot (US) | 1972 Aug | New Amphibian On Drawing Board | 1/2 pg News article. |
| C | AOPA Pilot (US) | 1974 Oct | Canada's
Trigull Amphibian; by Peter M. Bowers |
3 pgs. History and description of the Trident Trigull 320 amphibian. Photos: CF-TRI-X. |
| O | AOPA Pilot (US) | 1982 Mar | Yesterday's
Wings - The Republic Seabee; by Peter M. Bowers |
3 pgs. Comprehensive history of the Seabee. Photos: NX41816, NC87480, N6616K. |
| W | AOPA Pilot (US) | 1983 May | Splash
Party; by Frank Kingston Smith |
Water rating in a Seabee. |
| W | AOPA Pilot (US) | 1997 Sep | The
Contradictions of the Seabee; by Rick Durden |
PIREP |
| O | Aviation (US) | 1946 May | Design
Analysis of Republic Seabee; by Irving Stone |
18 pgs. The definitive engineering design analysis of the Seabee. Photos: NX87451 and several drawings. |
| O | Aviation (US) | 1946 Nov | Carving
Costs in Hydraulics Production; Editorial. |
2 pgs. How Electrol simplified the Seabee hydraulic landing gear - to reduce manufacturing time and costs. |
| W | Aviation Quarterly (CAN) | 1999 Summer | ? | ? |
| O | Aviation World (UK) | 1989 Sep/Oct | "The
Republic RC-3 Seabee"; by J. M. G. Gradidge |
4 pgs. Detailed history of the Seabee. Photos: CF-MYT, N17WH, CF-DKW, C-GBEE, CF-HHS, N87589, N6296K, HB-SEA, CF-GAD, VH-MJO, N6179K, NC87464, N60CB. |
| O | Book (NO) | 1957 | "Kan
flyet komme..."; by Oddmund Ljone [J. W. Eides Forlag, Bergen] |
Book with stories about ambulance flying in Norway. Many Seabee stories (in Norwegian). |
| O | Book
(SE)
|
2003 | "Porjus
- den flygande byn"; by Alf Wallbing ++ [Porjus Arkivkommitté, Porjus, Sweden. |
Book with stories about bushflying in Porjus area in Northern Sweden. Many Seabee photos (Swedish text). |
| O | Book (US) | 2004 | "Success
on the Step - Flying with Kenmore Air"; by C. Marin Faure [Earmark Publishing, Seattle, WA, USA] ISBN: 0-9760200-1-7 |
The story of Bob Munro and Kenmore Air and their people. Many stories about Seabee operations. |
| O | Book (NO) | 1984 | "Grönne
vinger over Norge - Wideröe's Flyveselskap A/S 50 år"; by Odd Arnesen [Wideröe's]. |
The history of Norwegian airliner Wideröe's 1934 - 1984. Wideröe's operated Seabees 1949 - 1966. |
| W | Book (US) | 19?? Winter ed. |
Bill
Winter's Model Aircraft Plan Book; [Winter Books] |
132 pgs. soft cover. Includes model plans of Republic Seabee by Claude McCullogh |
| O | CAHS Journal (CAN) | 2000 Summer | Republic's
Misjudged Amphibian; by Alan Wingate |
8
pgs. Lessons learned flying the snarly little RC-3 Seabee in
Canada from 1946. Photos: 18 various Seabees. |
| W | Canadian Aviation (CAN) | 1946 Sep | ||
| W | Canadian Aviation (CAN) | 1950 Sep | Front page | |
| C | Canadian Aviation (CAN) | 1974 May | Canada's
'do everything' amphib; by Hugh Wittington |
5
pgs. Exclusive pilot report on the Trident TriGull 320
amphibian. Photos: CF-TRI-X |
| O | Carolina
Skies (US)
|
2002 Feb/Mar | The
"Marty B"; by Micah Froese |
2 pgs. Don and Steve Mestler, N9042N. |
| O | Carolina Skies (US) | 2002 Feb/Mar | A
Seabee Adventure; by Steve Mestler |
2
pgs. Seabee cross-country flight in N9042N. Photos:N9042N |
| O | Carolina Skies (US) | 2002 Feb/Mar | The
Contradictions of the Seabee; by Rick Durden |
4
pgs. PIREP. Photos: N9042N |
| W | Commercial Aviation (US) | 1945 Oct | ||
| W | Commercial Aviation (US) | 1945 Jan | ||
| C | EAA Sportsman Pilot (US) | 1988 Winter | Jim
& Dete Sorensen's Seabee; by Jack Cox |
Photos: N6719K. |
| W | Esquire (US) | 1946 Dec | Introduction
to...; |
|
| W | Esquire (US) | 1947 Feb | Introduction
to...; by ? |
|
| O | Esquire (US) | 1946 | Esquire's
Plane Talk; Editor: John H. Geisse |
64 pgs. Softback book on owning private airplanes. Short description of Seabee. |
| O | Flight (UK) | 1945 Jan 4 | From Fighter ro Amphibian;- Republic Aviation Corporation's Post-war Four-seater. | 1 pg. Introduction to Republic amphibian. |
| O | Flight (UK) | 1946 Sep 5 | The Seabee Amphibian; Editorial. | 3 pgs. Technical description of Republic Seabee. Photos: NX87451, NX41816. Drawings. |
| W | Flight (UK) | 1947 Aug 14 | ||
| W | Flyghistoriskt Månadsblad (SE) | 1974 No: 10 | Seabee | Swedish Aviation Historical Society (SAHS). |
| W | Flygrevyn
(SE)
|
1976 No: 4 | Seabee | Photos:
SE-AXM Cover only. |
| W | Flying (US) | 1946 Mar | Introduction
to...; by ? |
|
| O | Flying (US) | 1946 Jul | Marchev's
Folly; editorial |
4
pgs. Seabee's radical design confounds the diehards who claim
"it can't be done". Photos: NX87454. |
| O | Flying (US) | 1946 Oct | The
Seabee; by Max Karant |
5 pgs. PIREP. Photos: NC87451. |
| W | Flying (US) | 1947 Mar | - | Cover only. |
| O | Flying (US) | 1947 Sep | - | Cover only. |
| O | Flying (US) | 1951 Jun | Welcome
Traveler; by Charles W. Roberts |
4
pgs. Seabee pilot Tommy Bartlett rescue 4 people. Photos: NC6553K. |
| O | Flying (US) | 1955 Sep | I
Learned About Flying From That...; by Lucius E. Burch, Jr. |
2 pgs. Seabee crashing at sea on emergency landing. |
| O | Flying (US) | 1959 Mar | The
"Bee" and Me; by Manuel P. Donnelley |
4 pgs. Article on owning a Seabee; 'I never had a plane I admired or trusted more'. |
| O | Flying (US) | 1959 May | Miller
Modification Seabee; by Ted Durosko |
4 pgs. PIREP on the Miller wing extension. |
| O | Flying (US) | 1964 Aug | Old Ironsides; by Richard Weeghman | 3
pgs. Was the Seabee still 'an awful lot of airplane for the
money' in 1964? Photos: NC87461, N6483K. |
| O | Flying (US) | 1966 Feb | The
Twin Bee; by Richard Weeghman |
3
pgs. PIREP. Photos; N87589. |
| O | Flying (US) | 1979 Aug | Multiengine
Land and Sea Bee; by Thomas H. Block, photos by Randy Steele |
7 pgs. Twin Bee MES rating. Photos: N9510U. |
| W | Flying (US) | 1984 May | I
Learned About Flying From That...; by John Fischer |
|
| C | Flying Annual (US) | 1965 | Seabee; by Richard B. Weeghman |
It's
18 years old abd still going stong... Photo: NX87451. |
| C | Flynytt (NO) | 198? | Sjöflytiden
1946 - 1959 - slik Jan E. Enersen husker den; by Jan E. Enersen |
6
pgs. Memories from the golden age of seaplane flying in Norway. Photo: Seabee LN-PAF. |
| C | Fortune (US) | 1946 Feb | New
planes for Personal Flying; Editorial |
9 pgs. Presention of new personal airplanes for 1946, including the Seabee. |
| O | Fortune (US) | 1947 Feb | Experiment
at Republic; Editorial Photos by Barrett Gallagher |
11 pgs. Republic's trouble getting into the commercial aircraft business with the RC-2 Rainbow and the RC-3 Seabee. |
| C | Industrial Aviation (US) | 1945 Dec | Design
Considerations For Inexpensive Aircraft; by Alfred Marchev |
4
pgs. Discussion of simplified aircraft manufacture methods. Photos: NX41816 |
| W | Mechanics Illustrated (US) | 1947 Mar | - | Cover only. |
| W | Mechanix
Illustrated (US)
|
1946 Mar | Photos: NX41816 | |
| O | Model Airplane News (US) | 1946 Jan | Seabee
- Plane On The Cover Model; by Marshall S. Green |
5 pgs. Seabee flying model (string controlled). Plans. |
| O | Model Airplane News (US) | 1946 Jan | Republic
Seabee - Plane On The Cover; by Seth Babits |
4
pgs. Description of the new Republic Seabee. Photos: NX41816. |
| C | Nautical Gazette, The (US) | 1945 Feb | Aero Nautical - Republic's Postwar Baby | 2 pgs. Introduction to the Republic Thunderbolt Amphibian. |
| C | New York Herald Tribune (US) | 1945, July 29 | Low-Cost Amphibious Airplane To Be Ready for Market Soon | 1 pg. Newspaper article. Photo: NX41816 on water. |
