Sydney Seaplanes is a small airline operating from Sydney Harbour's Rose Bay. Rose Bay is one of the world's oldest flying boat bases and when flights began from Rose Bay to Southampton, England in 1938 became Australia's first international airport.
Sydney Seaplanes operates 3 de Havilland Beaver float planes and 1 Cessna Caravan C208 Amphibian. In 2007 and 2009 Sydney Seaplanes won Best Tour and Transport Operator at the New South Wales Tourism Awards and the same year won The Australian Newspaper Best Innovative Tourism Experience. In 2009, Sydney Seaplanes went on to win the National Tourism Awards in the Tour and/or Transport Operator Category, regarded as the most coveted tourism awards in Australia. In June 2008 Sydney Seaplanes began scheduled services between Rose Bay and Newcastle Harbour, currently operating 4 flights per day, Australia's only scheduled seaplane service.
Sydney Seaplanes aircraft have a distinctive livery of red tails with the Southern Cross Stars and a stylised Opera House symbol on the fuselage.
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“You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.”
—O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)