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I used to treat my summer visitors to $20 seaplane rides over Lake Winnipesaukee ($10 each passenger). 'Seemed right to support an industry—and give spectacular views that visitors would always reminisce about.

General-Aviation aircraft manufacturers have been hammered by lawsuits—mostly by their providing "faulty aircraft instruments". Costs, mostly insurance costs, have rocketed as a result.

But it was the crunch of development that spelled the end of North Conway's White Mountain Airport and their scenic tours of this region. Seaplane tours from Wolfeboro's Lakes Region Airpark stopped around 2001 for the same reason.