Seaduck

About

The Sea Duck is the fictional twin-engine flying boat flown by Baloo the bear in Disney's animated television series TaleSpin (1990-1991), in which post-Jungle Book characters reimagined as anthropomorphic pilots and operators ran a small cargo airline in a 1930s-style alternate world. The Sea Duck — designated in the show's fictional universe as a "Conwing L-16" — was loosely based on the real-world Grumman G-21 Goose and its flying-boat contemporaries, with a bright yellow paint scheme, twin radial engines, and the kind of round-bowed amphibious silhouette that defined civil flying boats of the late 1930s.

The Sea Duck has become one of the most-recognized fictional aircraft in animation — a generation of TaleSpin viewers grew up associating yellow-and-red flying boats with adventure, cargo runs across the South Pacific, and the friendly companionship of Baloo and his loyal navigator Kit. As an RC scale subject, the Sea Duck is in the same fan-tribute tradition as the Star Wars X-wing and Y-Wing models — an aircraft from popular culture rendered in flyable form by enthusiast modelers.

The unmistakable yellow Sea Duck silhouette appears at fan-convention fly-ins and in the smaller community of RC pilots who build flyable tributes to fictional aircraft from television and film.

In the simulator

A novelty scale subject for fans of animated aviation. The Sea Duck flies as a twin-engine flying boat, capturing the visual character of one of cartoon television's most beloved aircraft. Use it for novelty scale flying with cinematic visual signature.