A houseboat made from an amphibious PBY Catalina flying boat.

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Horror-Raisin-877@reddit

hmm, OK make it a boat, but he should have kept it more airplane lookin’

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topazchip@reddit

Makes haul-outs a hell of a lot easier.

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dadmantalking@reddit

Let me introduce you to the Landseaire.

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Hailfire9@reddit

I guess this is a 70+ year old relic of a boat from Australia bought from the RAAF as surplus. Allegedly there are photos around of more of them, a Google image search can point you towards them.

Now what caught my eye was a whole damned Dornier that met the same fate, also down in Australia.

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EarlyMB@reddit

That might have been an ex-Dutch one?

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Someone involved in the scrapping or knowing the scrapper said "well, that would do a nice hulk, let's get rid of the flying stuff and put a cab on top, the landing gear is practical for taking her out once in a while, let's keep it"

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OperationMobocracy@reddit

These conversions probably use stripped, not-airworthy airframes sold as salvage. Not low hour airworthy versions.

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TigerIll6480@reddit

Post-WW2, plenty of brand new airframes of various types were flown straight to recycling depots.

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BestMillimeter18@reddit

Not sure of the validity of the claim, but supposedly the reason the original Land Rover was aluminum was due to the low price of aluminum from all the scrapped airframe that were getting recycled.

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LordRavensbane@reddit

Probably was done after the war when these were being scrapped and sold off for cheap, or done in another country where this was cheaper than buying a boat

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Basis-Some@reddit

It’s kind of brilliant, beautiful lines and a boat that size that doesn’t need a trailer? Not bad

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ash_274@reddit

Need to come up with a means of propulsion, though. It went from a deep-draft airboat to an amphibious barge.

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Basis-Some@reddit

Vibe drive

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P1xelHunter78@reddit

The fun of a PBY without all of the “…wait, how much is that going to cost?!” And the “yeah, I’d like to order six cases of oil today, I’m stocking up for the weekend”

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