Its a bit odd that they spent all this effort on a nice looking website and have the most mediocre interior photos. Just two photos, neither showing a bed made up and one has a bottle of cleaning fluid in the sink and a opened can of favoured seltzer on the bench.
This is probably a stupid question, but can these float planes be fitted out to land on runways? There are pictures of the planes on wheels but I can't tell if those are landing gear or just wheels to move it around on land.
Edit: Yes they have landing gear. Under "Floats" in the specs:
> Re designed to FAR 23 standards out of Carbon fiber including landing gear for hard surface use
As a pilot, I love the idea. But as soon as I saw the cockpit I knew the price would be out of my league. I'm still in the single digit gallons per hour world, and this bad boy is running at 50-60 gallons per hour. Nice engine. Would be great to be able to buy JetA.
I was amused that they elected to pay the weight penalty of a stove, until I saw they're carrying around an outboard motor. Love the idea, wish I were rich enough to really consider one of these for myself.
Also - thrusters in the floats? I haven't seen that before. I never did get a seaplane endorsement, which you'd need for one of these. That's a neat idea, even if it isn't theirs. I wonder how much they're needed, and if the added control on the water is worth the weight. I have to imagine they'd be great if they offer enough degrees of freedom (and are easy enough to understand how to use).
It's just one notch below the Winnebago Heli Home :-)
https://www.thedrive.com/news/34753/the-winnebago-heli-home-...
I didn't realize there were so many AN-2's for sale: looks like going rate is about $100k for a piston or $2m for a turbine.
https://www.planecheck.com/?ent=ap&man=antonov&des=an2&type=...
edit, I guess you need that turbine to lug all the extra weight from the furnishings and floats around with enough Vx to get out of short mountain lakes with a little density altitude.
The turbine version going for $2.4m is in fact the plane from the article OP shared. So that's what they are looking to get for their version.
https://www.planecheck.com/?ent=ap&man=antonov&des=an2&type=...
Holy Toledo. The Winnebago Heli Home is the most 1970s thing I have seen since the CRT thread. How much more energy can we consume in doing a typical recreational activity.
This is cool.
I think my blank-check lottery plane would be a Grumman Albatross with PT6s and a yacht interior.
I would get a PBY Catalina and try and turn it into a camper