Before he built helicopters, Igor Sikorsky designed and built well-regarded fixed-wing aircraft, including Dick Jackson's fabulously restored S-39 amphib. Jackson brought his S-39 to Sun 'n Fun 2010, and AVweb took a tour.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/multimedia/votw/dick-jacksons-fabulous-s39