Its mission was to provide transport to and from New York City and Newport, Rhode Island.
Its design is very similar to the Collier Trophy-winning Loening S-1 Flying Yacht.
[2] The all-metal gull-winged Kirkham Flying Yacht was built concurrently in the same shop in Long Island as the Bonney Gull, another more experimental gull wing design.
The Air Yacht is an all-metal seaplane with a mid-gull wing planform.
Power is from a single 450 hp (336 kW) pusher engine.