{"id":300597,"date":"2026-07-20T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300597\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:18:10","slug":"seaplane-bases-that-really-make-a-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300597\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaplane Bases That Really Make a Splash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-kserv-preview=\"\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seaplane flying is widely regarded as one ultimate way of experiencing aviation. Flying off the water is a uniquely rewarding experience, offering a sense of freedom, access to breathtaking landing sites, and a level of tranquility rarely found in other forms of aviation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Seaplane Pilots Association (SPA) is the primary organization focused on this special segment of aviation and catalogs seaplane flying opportunities, training, and background information on its website (<a href=\"https:\/\/seaplanepilotsassociation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">seaplanepilotsassociation.org<\/a>). One of the SPA\u2019s many resources is the Water Landing Directory app, which highlights seaplane bases and other places that welcome floatplane operations, as well as related regulations.<\/p>\n<p>CREATE A FREE ACCOUNT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to keep reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">Create a free account to continue. Already a member? Sign in below.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tDismiss<\/p>\n<p>CREATE A FREE ACCOUNT<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to keep reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">Create a free account to continue. Already a member? Sign in below.<\/p>\n<p>OUT OF FREE ARTICLES<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou&#8217;ve used your free articles<\/p>\n<p class=\"kserv-gate__simple-message\">You&#8217;ve read all of your free articles for now. Subscribe for unlimited access to every story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seaplane flying is widely regarded as one ultimate way of experiencing aviation. Flying off the water is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[114071,75,84,83,9,24,63,70794,109934,114072,114073,114074],"class_list":["post-300597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-flying-magazine","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pilots","tag-seaplane","tag-seaplane-bases","tag-seaplane-pilots-association","tag-ultimate-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}