Aerocat Twin Boom Amphibian Designs

The SRX design is powered by either a 250 hp Crossflow CF4-20THO engine or one 480 hp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-21 turboprop. The twin engine design with floats is the Aerocat TRX, which has two 120 hp Jabiru 3300 engines.

Sources:

Downey, Julia: 2008 Kit Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 24, Number 12, December 2007, page 47. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
Vandermeullen, Richard: 2011 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 43. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
 
Creative Flight built and flew a prototype to Oshkosh in 2003, but very little has been heard from them since. Only one Aerocat airframe (C-YGC) is still registered with Transport Canada. The plan was to sell pre-molded components to amateur builders.
One novel feature is that floatation "slippers" could be quickly removed, while leaving tail pylons intact. Nose-wheels are mounted in the nose of both tail booms. The twin floats and rasied gull-wings were intended to reduce the risk of whacking wings while docking ... similar to conventional twin-float bush-planes.
With an empty weight of 1750 pounds and a gross weight of 3,000 pounds, Aerocat should be able to carry 4 people.
Meanwhile Creative Flight (re-named Auriga) is busy building carbon-fibre composite components for other small manufacturers.

Bill Hulse designed the similar Privateer light amphibian with a PT6A turboprop engine. At last report, the Privateer prototype was nearing test-flights at DeLand, Florida.
 

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