Aeromarine West Indies Airways

Aeromarine West Indies Airways was a United States airline that operated from 1920 to 1924.

It was reorganized as Aeromarine Airways in spring of 1921 with Inglis Moore Uppercu, a New York City Cadillac dealer as its president.

[6] The overseas flights in Felixstowe F5L flying boats named the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria brought passengers to popular destinations that still allowed drinking at the start of Prohibition.

[8] The "rebirth" of Aeromarine West Indies Airways occurred in February 2007 when it was reformed and incorporated in the State of Florida,[9] Aeromarine West Indies Airways Corporation has applied for its FAA Part 121 Air Carrier Certificate[10] intending to begin operations, flying vintage flying boats and/or propliners, by 2012.

In January 2009 the airline purchased a 1920s-style coastal steamship, the CSS (Coastal Steam Ship) Seminole Wind,[11] intending to base her in St. Augustine and use her as a floating terminal and tender for seaplane operations.

Five of the fleet of six Aeromarine 75 flying boats moored at Biscayne Bay , Miami , in the spring of 1922 [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Santa Maria , the most well known and utilised of Aeromarine’s aircraft, flying over the Lake Erie Islands , summer 1922. [ 12 ]