The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum finally flew their reproduction of the 1914 Curtiss flying boat "America" from the surface of Lake Keuka at the museum's 2008 seaplane fly in Hammondsport, NY. In 1907, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell formed the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) to develop aircraft and he recruited motorcycle and engine builder Glenn Curtiss to help. Design work began at Bell's estate in Nova Scotia and later moved to Curtiss' workshops in Hammondsport where four AEA aircraft were built and flown in 1908. In 1909, the AEA disbanded and Curtiss established his own company.

The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum publicly revealed their 72-foot wingspan reproduction of the 1914 Curtiss flying boat "America" at the Museum's annual seaplane fly in on Lake Keuka in Hammondsport, in New York's Finger Lakes region. The aircraft water taxied before the crowds in 2007 but did not fly because the two 100 hp special OXX6 engines sent out for overhaul were not ready. The replica flew for the first time at the 2008 fly in. The original America was built to compete for a $50,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail for the first transatlantic crossing by a flying machine.