This 1947 Republic RC-3 Seabee has lowered it landing gear to taxi onto the beach in downtown Hammondsport after landing on Keuka Lake, NY. The aircraft was attending the 2008 seaplane fly-in sponsored by the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum.

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.