Seaplane Scenics

Seaplane Scenics is a Seattle area company flying scenic tours, charters and flight instruction from Renton, at the south end of Lake Washington. It flies a Cessna 185 Skywagon on floats and a Cessna 172, and operates from the Will Rogers Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base in Renton, with land plane services at a jet centre in Seattle.

Its scenic tours take off from water or from a runway. Routes cover Lake Washington, Lake Union, Kirkland and Bellevue, downtown Seattle, the Space Needle, the sports stadiums, the Ballard Locks and Puget Sound. Pilots narrate the flight live, passengers wear noise cancelling headsets, and each aircraft carries up to five passengers. Bookings can be made in advance or on the same day, and larger groups and custom routes can be arranged.

The company's charters fly on the customer's schedule to the San Juan Islands, around Puget Sound, and as far as Canada, Idaho and Montana. It offers whale watching trips to the San Juans and resort or remote stops for breakfast, lunch or dinner, as well as extended tours with routes chosen by the customer.

It also teaches seaplane ratings and general flying, one of the few places in the Seattle area to learn to fly from water.