Chalk’s
Chalk’s seaplanes are a popular and exciting feature of travelling to Bimini and conjure up a certain nostalgia for pre-war adventure travel. Founded in 1919 by Arthur B ‘Pappy’ Chalk on the docks of the Royal Palm Hotel in Miami, the company is now the largest seaplane airline in the world.
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Famous passengers in the 1930s included Ernest Hemingway, who travelled frequently to Bimini along with many other Americans escaping Prohibition, and the Cuban dictator, Gerardo Machado, who fled a coup in 1933 in a chartered Chalk’s plane. His occupation on the manifest was listed as ‘retired’.
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