Uber-luxury Longboat resort adds seaplane drop-off option for guests

  • By S.T. Cardinal
  • | 9:45 a.m. January 14, 2026
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Tropic Ocean Airways have 14 aircraft in their fleet, mostly made up of Cessna Grand Caravans with pontoons affixed for water landings.
Tropic Ocean Airways have 14 aircraft in their fleet, mostly made up of Cessna Grand Caravans with pontoons affixed for water landings.
Image courtesy of Tropic Ocean Airways
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Certain guests of the St. Regis Longboat Key Resort may soon arrive to their reservations from above  — in a plane. 

 

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