Withdrawn from use in 1953.

'Launching of seaplane.' The Danish air force operated six Sea Otters for rescue and Catalina pilot training purposes between late 1946 and 1952. Photo by: Ib Hansen / Aarhus Arkivet

VH-AJO was assembled at Rose Bay flying boat base by Qantas. This photo looks like it has made the short hop to the Qantas base at Sydney airport. It and sister ship VH-AJN were used in Papua New Guinea to support oil exploration. VH-AJO sank at its mooring at Port Moresby on January 21, 1952.

VH-BQI went derelict on a farming property north of Sydney after the hull was holed on nearby Lake Macquarie. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Yellow rescue bird. Ex Royal Air Force JN141. Photo by: Daan Noske / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Operated in Papua New Guinea on behalf of Australian Petroleum Co. Withdrawn from use at Port Moresby. Fuselage may have been buried when the ravine in which it was parked was filled in.

VH-BQI was one of three Sea Otters to serve with the Australian navy from 1948 to 1953. A few months after being civil registered in December 1954 it struck a submerged tree stump at RAAF Rathmines. Despite being holed, it reached the flying boat ramp safely. There it sat for many years until relocated to a rural property at nearby Awaba where it slowly fell apart. The weathering exposed its former military marks. The cockpit and nose now preserved at the Fleet Arm Museum, Nowra.

Sea Otter of the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment on a communications flight from its base at Felixstowe (Suffolk) via Ringway to Bitteswell (Warwickshire).