Seawind 300C

Seawind 300C

The Seawinds are a family of composite, four-seat, amphibian airplanes that all feature a single tail-mounted engine.

The Seawind line consists of the kit-built Seawind 2000 and Seawind 3000 developed by SNA Inc. of Kimberton, Pennsylvania, USA and the Seawind 300C under development by Seawind LLC, also of Kimberton, Pennsylvania. The Seawind 3000 was introduced in 1993.

The Seawind 300C is intended to be the certified production version and is derived from the kit-built Seawind 3000. It incorporates many changes required to conform to the certification standards. The company indicated that certification flight testing would continue after the crash of the prototype on August 16, 2007, but did not actually resume until early 2010. Certification flight testing continued though the summer and autumn of 2011 with fixes introduced for problems with adverse yaw, lateral stability, ineffective rudder trim at low power settings, pitch damping, roll/yaw damping, high rotation forces on takeoff and the stall prevention system. As of early 2013 certification was not yet complete.

Production of Seawind 3000 kits was suspended in 2002 to concentrate on certification of the 300C and the kits are no longer available.