The EASTMAN ‘SEA ROVER’ is a bi-wing, single-engine, pilot and up to three passengers, flying boat designed and built by Jim Eastman and Tom Towie in Detroit in the late 1920’s. Unfortunately, the Company failed due to the Great Depression and Jim Eastman brought five of the aircraft out to British Columbia to be used in mining exploration. This aircraft is the only remaining example of the eighteen built by the Eastman Company and restoration took four years and eighteen thousand hours.
The Sea Rover is unique in many respects. It has an all-wood frame with the aluminum hull bolted to the frame. It has the smallest twin-row radial engine ever built and it has a variable pitch propeller which was unusual for its time.
