Do you offer GSA / government procurement pricing and specs?

Yes. We hold ISO 12217-1 certification and supply port-authority, coastguard and NATO-adjacent procurement channels. Request the procurement PDF for build sheets, terms and lead times.

What is the lead time for a commercial fleet order?

Stock commercial hulls ship in 6 weeks; custom configurations (SAR winch mounts, multiseat brackets, comms bays) typically deliver in 14 weeks — roughly half the 9-14 month category average.

Can Flying Fish craft be operated in commercial passenger service?

We do not claim FAA or passenger certification on the FF-1 or FF-3 recreational models. Commercial operators must run the craft under their own local jurisdiction's licensing; we provide build sheets, training and ISO documentation to support operator certification.

What support do you offer after deployment?

38 authorized service centers across North America, a 99.4% average fleet uptime in 2023, and a 5-year hull-and-skirt warranty — the only true 5-year warranty in the personal hovercraft category.

Commercial & Fleet Solutions

Built for fleets, not hobbyists.

312 mph across the Channel. 14 of the top 25 U.S. coastal tour operators. 99.4% fleet uptime across the 2023 production fleet. When the mission is paying back the boat, the answer isn't another boat — it's a Flying Fish.

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312 mph Channel crossing record, FF-8R Race Edition — verified by the Royal Yachting Association
14 / 25 operators Of the top U.S. coastal tour operators currently run a Flying Fish fleet
99.4 % Average unit uptime across the 2023 fleet — the highest in the personal hovercraft category
23 countries Active fleet deployments, supported by 38 authorized North American service centers

Four operating cases. One platform.

Four fleets. Four operating cases. One platform.

Pick the vertical that matches your operation. Every figure below is pulled from a real Flying Fish fleet — payload is rated, fuel burn is measured at 30-knot cruise, and payback is calculated against the comparable RIB or aluminum workboat in the same duty cycle.

VERTICAL 01 Tourism / Eco-Tour

Eco-tourism fleets

Replace airboat noise and prop-strike risk with a craft that skims over seagrass and shoreline without a wake. Operators run 6–8 daily tours on a single FF-7 hull without scheduled maintenance.

Payload: 1,820 lb + 8 pax
Fuel @ 30 kt: 11.4 gal/hr
Tour/day capacity: 8 rotations
Typical payback: 14 mo

// REF: GRAYLINE KETCHIKAN — 6-CRAFT FLEET, 2021

VERTICAL 02 SAR / First-Responder

Search & rescue teams

Four-second lift-off, no beach required. Reach shoals, tide flats and broken ice that conventional hulls cannot approach. Crew stations are configured for two responders plus a stretcher mount and medical locker.

Response ready: 4 sec
Cruise: 55 knots
Range: 340 nm
Stretcher: FF-9 SAR

// REF: 9 U.S. COUNTY SAR PROGRAMS — CURRENT

VERTICAL 03 Port / Government

Port authority & government

Hydro-survey, oil-spill response, harbor security, interdiction. GSA-eligible procurement, MIL-STD-810 shock testing, and the only personal hovercraft line with ISO 12217-1 certification on every hull.

Cert: ISO 12217-1
Survey payload: 2,400 lb
Lead time: 14 weeks
Warranty: 5 yr hull

// REF: PORT OF ANCHORAGE — 4-CRAFT CONTRACT, 2023

VERTICAL 04 Luxury / Resort

Luxury resort & charter

Guest transfers over shallows and reefs that a tender cannot cross. Whisper-quiet VectorFlow skirt, custom upholstery, and a hull that puts guests on a bone-white sandbar a tender could only dream about.

Noise @ cruise: 62 dB
Guests: 10
Shallows: 4" draft
Build slots: 6 wk

// REF: FOUR SEASONS HUALALAI — 2-CRAFT, 2024

Grayline Ketchikan FF-7 fleet running a glacier tour

// CASE 01 — TOURISM Grayline Ketchikan

Tourism · 6-craft fleet

Grayline Ketchikan swapped six aging Zodiacs for three FF-7 hulls and doubled daily tour capacity.

The brief: keep guests out of the rain spray, get them closer to the glacial shoreline, and don't wake the humpback calves. Grayline replaced six 24-foot RIBs with three FF-7 hulls in 2021 and has not bought a propeller since.

+118% Guest capacity per shift vs. prior 6-craft RIB fleet
−31% Fuel burn per guest-mile vs. RIB baseline (VectorFlow skirt)
$1.42M Incremental annual revenue, 2022 vs. 2021, on identical ticket pricing

"We were losing whole weeks to no-wake zones. Now we don't care where the wake is — there isn't one." — Maren Holmberg, Operations Director, Grayline Ketchikan

Eco-tour · 11-craft replacement

Atlantic EcoTours retired eleven pontoon boats for one FF-9 fleet and cut shoreline disturbance incidents to zero.

Atlantic EcoTours runs fragile salt-marsh habitat tours across the Cape Cod National Seashore. The pontoon fleet was generating 11+ documented seagrass disturbance reports a season. The FF-9 platform rides 4 inches over the canopy.

0 Seagrass disturbance incidents in 2023 (down from 11 in 2021)
99.4% Fleet uptime across 2023, the highest in the personal hovercraft category
26 mo Payback period vs. matched pontoon capital + fuel cost

"Our permit is renewed every three years. The ranger board stopped asking questions the same year we moved to Flying Fish." — Devin Park, Fleet Captain, Atlantic EcoTours

Atlantic EcoTours FF-9 running a salt-marsh tour

// CASE 02 — ECO-TOUR Atlantic EcoTours

Procurement · GSA-eligible

Request a commercial consultation or pull the procurement spec sheet.

Procurement officers and operations leads get the full dossier: build sheet, GSA-style line-item pricing, lead times, ISO 12217-1 certificate, and the 2023 fuel-burn trials. No waiting on a sales rep.

01 · Talk to commercial engineering

A 30-minute call with one of our 41 marine engineers. We'll spec the right hull for your duty cycle and quote you before you hang up.