The Coast Guard announced in the Federal Register that they are seeking input from the public on wing-in-ground (WIG) craft. This information will support the Coast Guard’s compliance with Section ...

“This language creates a framework for the FAA to provide technical expertise in support of the maritime certification pathway for wing-in-ground effect craft led by the US Coast Guard,” it says.

AirFish Wing-in-Ground Craft It'll push itself out of port on the water, then accelerate to takeoff speed, at which point it'll lift off and stay between 2-23 ft (0.6-7 m) over the water surface ...

Lockheed Martin Ventures (LMV) recently put money into a Rhode Island-based startup which aims to sell a sea-skimming wing-in-ground-effect craft called “seaglider” to passenger transport and ...

This latest development comes to us courtesy of The Maritime Executive in a May 5, 2025, article titled “Marine Corps Could Be Among First Users of Electric Wing-in-Ground Craft.” To wit ...

Regent, the company developing electric-powered wing-in-ground effect vehicles called seagliders, today unveiled a full-size mockup of its passenger-carrying craft. The company said the actual ...

Seeing an untapped market for wing-in-ground-effect (WIG ... we could see a production capacity of 25-50 WIG craft annually,” he adds. Each aircraft could cost $3-5 million.

The dream of a workable wing-in-ground-effect vehicle has never gone away and smaller, less hefty, craft have been made in recent years. The system’s efficiency, plus the close proximity of the ground ...

One of those is a vehicle known as an ekranoplan. It was a type of craft designed by the Soviet Union to take advantage of a wing-in-ground effect — a phenomenon explained by the ...

AirFish Wing-in-Ground Craft It'll push itself out of port on the water, then accelerate to takeoff speed, at which point it'll lift off and stay between 2-23 ft (0.6-7 m) over the water surface ...