The pictures on this page were all taken in Port Washington between 1934 and 1940.  I had no idea what kind of planes they were until John Underwood, who must have an encyclopedic mind, identified them in detail.

This one caught my eye.  A tiny, open-cockpit monoplane!  Looks like a toy!  That’s Walter acting like it’s a real airplane.

Once again, John set me straight.

“Aeromarine-Klemm AK-26 on custom-built Kantner floats, c. 1932.   The airplane was a popular German design built under license.     These floats were later developed with retractable wheels, two on each float, for land and water ops.      Harold Kantner was a designer as well as a test pilot,  learned to fly in a Bleriot in 1910.     He finished a long and productive career helping create the PBY Catalina.”

 This is the only picture I found of this aircraft.  John identified it as a “Fairchild A942 "Baby Clipper", NC15952.    First of seven built for PanAm's South American services and one for ops in China.”

I found this link on Youtube:  Baby Clipper

Again, from John, “...four-passenger Ireland N2 Neptune,  produced in small numbers by a division of Curtiss-Wright just before the Depression all but wiped out the aircraft industry. Held in high esteem by bootleggers operating in and out of Florida.”  Did he just call my father a bootlegger??!!  Hmmm, probably not out of the question.

Three-place Waco CSO biplane, NC634N, on Edo floats.     Quite popular.