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Description:
Miami Seaplane Base
is a public-use
seaplane
base located east of the
central business district
of
Miami
on
Watson Island
in
Miami-Dade County
,
Florida
,
United States
. The seaplane base is publicly owned.
History
In 1926,
Chalk's International Airlines
built an air terminal on a landfill island,
Watson Island
, where it has continued to operate for 83 years. Its scheduled and other flights by
flying boats
and
amphibian aircraft
served many points in the
Bahamas
and other nearby destinations. Chalk's moved its main base to
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
after the attacks of
September 11, 2001
, because of security concerns around the
Port of Miami-Dade
and increased helicopter traffic around Watson Island.
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