Amphibian Light Aircraft

[nicephotog]

In rummaging around in the world of light aircraft in Australia i noticed the only cheap usable aircraft come in kit form and some from time to time are converted to amphibian, However, since 2013 many "experimental classification" kit light aircraft have become both vaguely reliable and cheaper and only a few fall into the "average wage earner" level of owner builder that can be obtained as amphibian standard.
At least one stands out and is not too bad, it comes from South Africa and is called a "BushCat".
Bushcat specs
http://www.bushcatusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/BushCatSpecs2017.pdf

info other: Australian light aircraft usage for the average wage earner
http://windsolarhybridaustralia.x10.mx/PPL-light-aircraft.pdf

There are plenty of kit seaplanes of one or two seat that are immensely expensive but for now there have only been two or three cheap kit that make amphibian, one a bi-plane (Mariner aircraft).
Basically i am trying to collect a whole database of experimental kit option that take two or four people and with some relevance to amphibian in the price range of such as the Jabiru fly away or Brumby.

[Drop Bear]

2 hours ago, nicephotog said:

There are plenty of kit seaplanes of one or two seat that are immensely expensive but for now there have only been two or three cheap kit that make amphibian, one a bi-plane (Mariner aircraft).

Nice. So when you get one can you take me fly in fishing?

[nicephotog]

As i see it, i would rather build one myself, i've been looking up aircraft aluminium because i think my maths is better at what i see and there are a few designs of types they(obscure light aircraft builders "experimental license") don't do cheap but may be able to be built cheap such as flying boat amphibian.

When i ever get one will be a long time, but they're interesting.

[Drop Bear]

On 11/23/2017 at 1:16 PM, nicephotog said:

When i ever get one will be a long time, but they're interesting.

Yes interesting stuff. I bet the wright brothers would have loved to have aircraft aluminium. 

[nicephotog]

They very near did, that (Aluminium(s)) was simply difficult to smelt because of the little understanding and techniques in metallurgy of the era, but essentially they had aluminium alloys.