Aircraft Photo of PK-AKS | Canadian Vickers Canso A | AirHistory.net #826829
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:PK-AKS
Aircraft Original Type:Consolidated 28 Catalina
Aircraft Generic Type:Consolidated PBY Catalina
Aircraft Version:Canadian Vickers Canso A
C/n (msn):CV-248
Location
Location:Not known
Country:Indonesia
 
Photo Date:December 1946 to August 1949
Photo from:AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Photo ID: 826829
Photo Comment

Built in 1943 for the RCAF, serial 9814. Served at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Torbay, Newfoundland. Stored in June 1945. Sold through Charles H Babb Co to Shell subsidiary Nederlandsch Nieuw-Guinea Petroleum Maatschappij (NNGPM). Delivered via Oakland in December 1946. The Canso was registered until August 1949. The photo source gives the date as 1953 which is highly unlikely. Another photo shows this aircraft on the water at Steenkool (now Bintuni), Bird's Head Peninsula, NNG. Photo from: Wereldmuseum

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