You’ll soon be able to take a seaplane from College Park to New York City and Boston.

Starting in mid-September, Tailwind Air will fly eight-seat Cessna Grand Caravans with floats from the historic College Park Airport to the SkyPort Marina on New York’s East River. It’s the first ever seaplane service to fly from the Washington, D.C. area to Manhattan.

From there, you can continue on to Boston Harbor on an existing Tailwind route.

“Adding College Park, in the Washington, D.C., area to us is an exciting next chapter for us as we aim to bring the Northeast together again in a faster way,” Peter Manice, Tailwind’s director of scheduled services, said recently.

Started in 1909 as a military demonstration site for the Wright Brothers, the College Park Airport is the oldest continuously operated airport in the world. It’s 2,607-foot runway limits the size of planes that can use it, as have post-9/11 restrictions on D.C. airspace.

But for Tailwind, it’s a great option, since it’s across the street from a Green Line Metro station and, eventually, a Purple Line station. It could also help make the nearby Discovery District more accessible to New York business executives.

Flights will be once or twice daily and will take around 90 minutes, two hours shorter than a comparable Acela train trip and an hour shorter than a comparable commercial flight.

One-way tickets currently run $395, but you can get a free companion ticket if you book a flight before Sept. 10 using the code TWDCBOGO.

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