Built for the US Navy as 37823, it was diverted to the Canadian AF as Goose Mk2 392, delivered in Aug-1944. In May-1947 it became civil as CF-FEM (registered as a G-21A although a JRF-5 is a G-38). In Dec-1948 it became CF-BAE, in May-1977 C-FBAE, in Jan-1985 N91GS, in Sep-1993 N93GS, and in Apr-2007 C-GPCD. On 03-Aug-2008 it crashed onto a mountainside near Kyuquot Inlet, BC, on a flight from Port Hardy to Chamiss Bay. It caught fire on impact and was destroyed. The pilot and four of the six passengers were killed.

Registration cancelled 2012

Now preserved at Floyd Bennett Field, New York.

Now preserved at Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon in USCG markings

Another, much smaller, and metal Goose in the Evergreen museum, home of the Hughes H-4. Delivered to the US Navy in March 1945 as 87728, this JRF-5 flew as N7811 in Alaska for decades. It is seen painted as an early JRF-2, V176 (c/n 1065) which was delivered to the US Coast Guard in October 1939. Based at CGAS Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, it fatally crashed into nearby Blyn Mountain on 6 April 1943. Capt Schuldt piloted not that aircraft but a C-5 Galaxy which crashed in Germany in 1990.