Pilot David West Returns Seaplanes to the Clyde
Publication: Daily Mail Date: Reporter: Brian WelshByLine: ‘NOW ITS PLANE SAILING’Description: Colour photograph of seaplane which staged the first of a series of test flights landing his Cessna aircraft on the Clyde at Braehead – It has been more that 60 years since seaplanes were last a familiar sight on the Clyde – the first on the Clyde since the end of World War 11.Founder of Loch Lomand Seaplanes, Pilot David West, from Helensburgh initiated a project to start using light aircraft to carry passengers from the heart of Glasgow out to the Highlands and Islands in a fraction of the usual journey time.
