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Originally Posted by Rupert
For small flostplanes pick a Cessna of the right size, basically. Alternatively, the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver or DHC-6 Twin Otter would be a common choice. The DHCs have features that'd be useful to monster hunters and the like, being rugged, having excellent STOL capabilities, and large doors so you can load and unload quickly and stuff awkward and bulky objects into them. I think the Beaver is probably what you'd be recommended to get as a 'working' plane in its class, over everything else.
While they weren't common in the west until the this century, there's always the An-2V (or An-2M or An-2W if Polish-built), the floatplane variant of the An-2 (which you listed up-thread as an option). It's probably about as primitive as you can get and still claim something is TL7.
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Ok, say if we were in the market for four shorter range, smaller seaplanes (350-500 miles) and a couple of medium amphibious transports at some point between 1987-1994, what are plausible buys?
We're explicitly setting up logistics for occult investigators, research expeditions and even paramilitary teams, but we don't yet reject anything more modern than WWII (because fears of technology failing in the presence of magic only developed gradually, with experience, and then with the painful lessons of 1995).
What about a couple DHC-2 Beavers bought in the 80s and two An-2V or An-2M/W acquired dirt cheap in the early 90s as the smaller short-range transports?
Would it seem too odd compared to just buying the most common Beechcrafts, Cessnas or Pipers on the market at the time and fitting them with floats?
How about a DHC-6 Twin Otter as a medium amphibious transport bought in 1987-1988 or so? Is that a mundane purchase, something a person unaware of the supernatural might consider a good corporate plane for shuttling people involved in offshore oil between Caribbean islands lacking airports?