The design team included David Thurston, who later developed several other light seaplanes including the Colonial Skimmer, Lake Buccaneer, Thurston Teal and Seafire.

The Goodyear Aircraft Corporation began to design a small light amphibian before the end of the Second World War.

It had a retractable tail-wheel, accommodation for two, and a pylon-mounted piston engine with a pusher propeller.

The last aircraft built, the GA-22A Drake registered N5516M, was stored by the EAA Air Venture Museum until 2010.

[1] The airplane was transferred to the Military Aviation Preservation Society in Canton, Ohio where it was fully restored and put on display in 2013.