Grumman Flying Boats
A UNIQUE LEGACY
THE WORLD’S FINEST AMPHIBIAN
The Mallard is perfect for commuting to your lakeside lodge, exploring inaccessible lakes and rivers with family and friends or simply traveling in style!
As the first luxury, multi engine executive transport, the Mallard pioneered the Grumman Gulfstream line.
“A once in a lifetime opportunity to own not only a unique airplane, but to experience the golden age of flight.”
BORN IN LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK
The speed, comfort and the safety of land/sea capability made Mallards the premium choice of executives such as William Boeing, Vincent Astor, Frank Fuller, Gar Wood, Henry Ford, C.F. Kettering, Christian Dior, and King Farouk of Egypt.
Grumman followed the Mallard with the Grumman Gulfstream family of luxury turbine aircraft. As businesses sacrificed the flying-boat’s versatility for the Gulfstream’s speed, Mallards were snapped up by operators of scheduled ocean airline services.
Many were converted to 17-passenger ocean airliners and operated in conditions for which they were not designed where saltwater and rough water landings tragically led to corrosion and cracking of major structural elements in the wing.
Because of the $1m+ cost of removing and rebuilding the wing to satisfy Grumman’s repair requirements and $3-4M+ to restore a mallard to original condition, many Mallards were consigned to the boneyard or patched up, refurbished, and placed on the market.
J57 is one of only three Mallards to have escaped operation in the ocean and has lived it’s entire life in freshwater, stored in a hangar, and cared for as personal executive transport.
EXECUTIVE TRANSPORT CLASS
The Grumman Mallard pioneered the luxury twin-engine executive transport category. Transport category is a category of airworthiness applicable to large civil aircraft and is shown on its airworthiness certificate. A principle behind transport category design standards is duplication of all elements wherever failure of one element is likely to cause an accident. For example, the loads on the wings and tailplanes are usually carried by multiple load paths.
ROYAL TRANSPORTATION
Commonly used to transport world leaders, dignitaries, and business executives, Princess Margaret arrives in style in a Mallard to Vernon British Columbia, July 1958.
POWERED BY TWO 600HP R-1340 WASP ENGINES
Each of J57’s nine cylinder air cooled radial engines are supercharged with a 12:1 blower.