Stories
Former employees and friends share memories from the past.
Bryan Monkton
Bryan McCook
Ron Gillies
Noel Holle
Aviators from Down Under
by Marijane Sipple
Foxy's Wooden Boat Regatta
By Marijane Sipple
A great photo and story submitted by Mike P.
Bomba Charger
"Thank You for Flying Antilles Air Boats"
by Marijane Sipple / June 2022
"Trials and Tribulations"
by Marijane Sipple / May 2022
Island Pilot - Jane Kelly
by Marijane Sipple / March 2022
Clear Air Turbulence
by Marijane Sipple / March 2022
"For Auld Lang Syne"
by Marijane Sipple / December 2021
Living large in the Caribbean in the 70's... as remembered by Tom Rose 50 years later
Oh, deer...
and me without a camera.
Tom Anusewicz
Sandringham - Southern Cross makes its last Atlantic crossing in October 1980. A group of aviation enthusiast came together to purchase and prepare the aircraft to be flown and resold to a British Museum. The AAB flight crew was contracted to move the aircraft. The first leg was to be St. Croix to Boston. Things didn't quite go to plan.
Jim Flannagan
N74676 - Comments on the accident of Nov. 5 1978
Catalina Sunshine
from Greg and Beth aboard the Catalina Sunshine
March 8, 2018
A quick story from Tom Molamphy
N83781 Grumman Mallard arrives in St. Croix to join the AAB fleet. A little story about a little tradition.
Antilles Air Boats
"A lifetime of influence and admiration that almost felt like family to me" … Bruce Hinds
Bruce Hinds - Director, Seaplane Pilots Assoc. / Director, Washington Seaplane Pilots Assoc.
Seabee Club Newsletter -
February 21, 1976
A story from Steve Bell
Flying Magazine - August 1967
A Spendthrifts Tour of the Islands
(The Heretofore Unpublished Memoirs of an Ex-Ticket Agent)
by Marijane Sipple / April 2020
by Marijane Sipple / April 2020
by Marijane Sipple / June 2020
by Marijane Sipple
September 2020
by Tom Anusewicz
April 2020
by Marijane Sipple
June 2021
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