The Republic Seabee C-1 was an American three-seater amphibian air-sea rescue flying-boat of the late 1940's, produced between 1944 and 1947. The Republic Seabee C-1 was a cantilever monoplane of all-metal construction powered by a Franklin 6ALG-315 6-cylinder horizontally opposed air-cooled pusher engine providing a top speed of 200 kmh and a range of 672 km. Research Seabee