together with C-FIOL

delivered to Air Catalina in 1976 and written off in a landing accident on 14 April 1979. Photographer unknown

Delivered to the US Navy as bu 87735 in the closing days of WWII, this Goose was transferred to the Civil Aeronautics Administration in 1951 registered NC101. Pacific Western Airlines brought it to Canada in 1961. Trans Provincial Airlines acquired the aircraft when they took over PWA's light aircraft services in 1968. Damaged in an accident at Port Hardy, BC in 1994, the aircraft was rebuilt in 1997 and sold in the USA as N453T in 1998 (N21A after 1999). No further information after an accident while landing on the water at Marathon, FL on January 29, 2008.

This aircraft has had a long and varied history. Built as a JRF-5 for the USN in 1944, Bu 37796, but transferred to the Royal Navy as FP472. Returned to USN in 1946 as Bu 66361 but transferred immediately to the Honduran Air Force as 110. US civil registered as N3945C in December 1951, then N755G in 1970, then to Canada as C-GRCZ in May 1982. Back to the USA as N121GL in 1990. Exported to Australia and registered VH-GWH(4) 7 December 2012.

This aircraft has had a long and varied history. Built as a JRF-5 for the USN in 1944, Bu 37796, but transferred to the Royal Navy as FP472. Returned to USN in 1946 as Bu 66361 but transferred immediately to the Honduran Air Force as 110. US civil registered as N3945C in December 1951, then N755G in 1970, then to Canada as C-GRCZ in May 1982. Back to the USA as N121GL in 1990. Exported to Australia and registered VH-GWH(4) 7 December 2012.

Part of the static line up at Avalon 2025, is this Grumman Goose VH-GWH.

World War II era Goose that was delivered to the Royal Canadian Air Force (as 926) in July 1940. Converted to turbine by Marshall of Cambridge using a McKinnon STC turbine kit while registered G-ASXG. Registered to Air West in April 1974, the airline cited the high cost of PT-6 engine overhaul when it converted the aircraft back to piston power in 1985 (but kept the other Mikkinon modifications). Leased to Pacific Coastal Airlines, the amphibian crashed on take-off at Rivers Inlet, BC on May 12, 1988.

Operated by the Alaska Department of Public Safety whose shield can be seen below the cockpit window. On 11th October 1994, whilst completing a survey flight near Haines, AK., on behalf of the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Department, this aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances killing both occupants.

On 24th June 2007, whilst in the service of Peninsula Airways, this aircraft was badly damaged in a take-off crash at Dutch Harbor, AK., and is now a static exhibit in the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, at McNinnville, OR.

A yellow Goose of Chalk's, photographed in Key West. We think the location is Key West Bight with what is currently the US Coast Guard facility at Trumbo Point. The US Navy destroyer escort Joseph K. Taussig (DE-1030) seems to be moored there and the ship's history indicates that she served as a school ship at Key West from January to July 1966. According to the late Geoff Goodall's excellent web pages, however, Chalk's operated this airframe between 1967 and 1972. Photo by: Don Pinder / Monroe County Public Library

Home Base Museum

This Goose is painted as V190 which crashed into cliffs on Block Island, RI in April 1942. It is actually the next in series, V191 which was sold off after the war and registered as NC5538N in 1948. While with Catalina Seaplanes it was involved in three major accidents causing substantial damage. In July 1966 it landed in the wake of a tugboat causing the tail unit to distort, in January 1970 it nosed over on landing in the water wheels down and in December the same year it collided with another aircraft on the ground while taxiing at Long Beach. In 1974 registered N12CS and to museum c.1986