Given USN BuNo 46595 in 1943, this Cat was demobbed as N9501C but by 1963 was operated by Panair do Brazil (for oil company Petrobras) as PT-AXM. In February 1963 it joined the Forca Aerea Brasileira with s/n 6551 designated as a C-10, continuing operations in the Amazon. Ferried to Fort Lauderdale in by March 1984, it flew on to the UASFM in July, the nose gear collapsing on landing at Wright Field. By 1988 it was presented as OA-10A 44-33879 of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Sqdn in the Pacific Theatre with a 'Snafu Snatchers' logo on the right side and mission marks on the left

Sold to the Netherlands Navy in Netherlands New Guinea in 1954. The aircraft at the RAAF Museum marked A24-104 is a former civil aircraft, VH-EXG. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

This former Brazilian Air Force aircraft has been painted to represent a USAF OA-10A Catalina.

This Catalina served with the Brazilian AF in the Amazon Basin until 1981. In 1984 it was flown to the National Museum of the USAF for restoration and is now on display as 'Snafu Snatchers', an OA-10A assigned to the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron in the Pacific during WWII.

This Catalina displays 'Snafu Snatchers' nose art on her starboard side but mission marking are on the port side. Now on display at the National Museum of the USAF.