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One of two DGAs present, built for the US Navy in 1943 as GH-3 Bu45020. Registered as N68431 in 1960.

A Pratt & Whitney R-985 radial engine distinguished the DGA-15P from the other models. NC22404 (now N22404) is still registered in 2023. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

On departure the aircraft taxied downwind some distance and turned into wind which was west. We watched with some interest, my chief pilot included, and we all commented that there wasn't enough room. We saw the aircraft leave the water and then settle a couple of times.now getting really close to our dock. It rose for the third time to maybe 50 feet and stalled, dropped a wing and cartwheeled. We ran for the rescue boat and were alongside the wreckage very quick. The two passengers were already in the water so we hauled them into the boat. The pilot was sitting on top of aircraft barely wet.

Built in 1940 and presumably photographed by Arnold when new. Briefly registered to a company in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1951 and that is all that is known about this airframe. Photo from: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Race number "40" and with the name "Spirit of the Fraser Valley" in gold on the port side of the nose, CF-NTY was the rarest of a diverse field of participants in the 1971 London to Victoria, BC Air Race. It may have made the first ever visit of a Howard DGA-15P to the UK. The blue Beech Staggerwing CF-GWL, race number "12", parked behind also generated vintage interest. Held to mark the centenary of British Columbia formally becoming a State of Canada. For a number of participants, the first leg of the Race was Abingdon - Prestwick, with Reykjavik being the next transatlantic waypoint.