 The
operators of Island Seaplane Service have a
background of over forty-seven years of seaplane
activity in northern Minnesota, Canada, Alaska,
the Caribbean, Florida, SE Asian and
Hawaii. The founder of the company, Pat Magie, has flown 39,000 accident free hours with
about 32,000 hours in seaplanes--which now is
probably the world's record. He was also
named as the National Seaplane Pilot of the year
in 2000. He flew as a bush pilot in
Northern Minnesota, Canada and Alaska for many
years flying fishermen, hunters, forest fire suppression
and freight of all descriptions. He did
also fly many med-a-vac flights and saved
several lives--sometimes at great risk at night
and adverse weather conditions landing in
strange lakes with no lighting.
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has also flown for many movie films--both big
screen and TV shows. he was seen flying a
Twin Beech on floats in the movie "The
Phantom" filmed in Thailand and
"Godzilla" filmed here in
Hawaii. The movie actress Catherine Zeta
Jones starred as the villainous lady seaplane
pilot in "The Phantom" and Pat was
seen wearing a wig and dressed as the this same
lady pilot. The same DeHavilland
"Beaver" aircraft was used on tours
was the one seen in "the New Fantasy
Island" TV series filmed in 1998 with Pat shown
off loading many of the stars in these
episodes. This same "Beaver" was
seen in the Disney World Production of "The
Stevens Get Even" and a Bud Lite commercial
for the original "Survivors"
series. This aircraft has also been seen
in several Japanese TV shows and
commercials. Pat is a Screen Actors Guild
member and has flown seaplanes in many different
films and commercials. His wife and
partner Debbie runs the office, mans the telephone,
and does all the tour booking. His father flew during
the 1920s and early '30's holding license #229
signed by Orville Wright and a copy of this is
on display in the floating
 office.
Aviation is the heritage of three generations
with all of the grown children actively engaged
in aviation.
All of the company pilots are carefully selected
for flight skills as well as congeniality with
the customers. Everyone's inspiration is
to make the flights the highlight of the
customer's trip to Hawaii and this is often
heard as the passengers disembark the aircraft.
All of our Pilots are Certified Flight
Instructors and work with student Seaplane
Pilots on a regular basis. |
