Lakes Water Bird

Water Bird
General information
Typetwo seat experimental seaplane
National originUnited Kingdom
ManufacturerA.V. Roe Ltd
Designer
(float) E.W. Wakefield
Number built1
History
First flight(as seaplane) 25 November 1911
Developed fromGlenn Curtiss design

The Lakes Water Bird or Waterbird, sometimes known as the Avro Curtiss-type, is remembered as the first consistently successful British seaplane, developed by the Windermere-based Lakes Flying Company, during 1911.

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