Photographer: Unknown photographer.

Photographer: Unknown photographer.

The old markings are the remains of its service with RANSA (Rutas Aereas Nacionales S.A.). Photographer: Unknown photographer

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

1938: TOS USAAC, assigned to Wright Field, Dayton, OH and used for evaluation testing. 10/1942: Declared restricted and relegated to utility work. 1946: G.H. Baldwin with c/r NC56847. 1954: Two owners operated it for crop dusting. 1965: WFU, stored at Tucson, AZ.. 3/71: Ferried from Albuquerque to the Air Force Museum. 1980 to 1982: Restored and marked as a plane with the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron in 1939. Rare retractable turret was recovered by Darryl Greenamyer from a belly-landed B-18 high atop a Hawaiian mountain.

Ex JA-6209, N93118. Damaged beyond repair in a heavy landing at Nice - Cote d'Azur Airport on 22 October 1971 while operated by EAS.

Ex OO-VAN, D-ANUK, N95407, N15845, USAAF 42-72347. Converted for cargo (as a DC-4 'Swingtail') from a C-54B Skymaster for Sabena in 1966. It was re-registered as 9Q-CBK in 1984 and operated by Kinair Cargo from September 1984, and was destroyed when it crashed on 23 August 1988 near Mbamou Island, Congo.

Ready for delivery to Caledonian Airways, ex-BOAC. Sold to Monarch Airlines in April 1968. WFU at Luton in November 1971 and broken up there in June 1972.

Accepted by the British AF as FP495 in May-1942 as a Goose Mk1A. In 1945 it went to the US Navy as 66351. In Apr-1947 it became civil as NC1200V (registered as a G-21A). In Jan-1949 it became N1200V. In Jan-1965 it went to Canada as CF-RQI. Retractable McKinnon wingtip-floats fitted in 1965. It sank in an accident 29-Sep-1972. After rebuilt it became N62121 by 1975. To ZK-ENY in Oct-1977, DQ-FDQ in Oct-1982, back to ZK-ENY in Dec-1984, becoming VH-ENY in Jan-1989 and in Oct-1990 HS-TOM. In 1995 it was sold to Germany where it is under long-time restoration in Landsberied, last noted in 2020.

Built in 1952 it was registered N303W. In Jan-1956 it was exported to Canada where it became CF-IRS. In Oct-1986 this was cancelled and it went back to the USA as N9723N. In Dec-1989 it was registered in Australia as VH-UWG, returning to the USA in Jul-1994 as N52DN. This registration is still current in 2022.

1938: TOS USAAC, assigned to Wright Field, Dayton, OH and used for evaluation testing. 10/1942: Declared restricted and relegated to utility work. 1946: G.H. Baldwin with c/r NC56847. 1954: Two owners operated it for crop dusting. 1965: WFU, stored at Tucson, AZ.. 3/71: Ferried from Albuquerque to the Air Force Museum. 1980 to 1982: Restored and marked as a plane with the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron in 1939. Rare retractable turret was recovered by Darryl Greenamyer from a belly-landed B-18 high atop a Hawaiian mountain.

1938: TOS USAAC, assigned to Wright Field, Dayton, OH and used for evaluation testing. 10/1942: Declared restricted and relegated to utility work. 1946: G.H. Baldwin with c/r NC56847. 1954: Two owners operated it for crop dusting. 1965: WFU, stored at Tucson, AZ.. 3/71: Ferried from Albuquerque to the Air Force Museum. 1980 to 1982: Restored and marked as a plane with the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron in 1939. Rare retractable turret was recovered by Darryl Greenamyer from a belly-landed B-18 high atop a Hawaiian mountain.

1938: TOS USAAC, assigned to Wright Field, Dayton, OH and used for evaluation testing. 10/1942: Declared restricted and relegated to utility work. 1946: G.H. Baldwin with c/r NC56847. 1954: Two owners operated it for crop dusting. 1965: WFU, stored at Tucson, AZ.. 3/71: Ferried from Albuquerque to the Air Force Museum. 1980 to 1982: Restored and marked as a plane with the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron in 1939. Rare retractable turret was recovered by Darryl Greenamyer from a belly-landed B-18 high atop a Hawaiian mountain.

Ex NR843 (23 July 1945), YI-ABG (Iraqi Airways 1946), G-ALGE (registered 5 January 1949). Sold in the Irish Republic and registered EI-AMN 31 July 1962, cancelled 25 August 1964 when sold in France as F-BLXX. Later shipped to USA, where it was registered N8053 (July 1973). Impounded in the Dutch Antilles 1975 for drug smuggling, aircraft left in open store and eventually derelict. Cancelled 4 February 2017.

Impressed in 1942 as a C-36A, 42-38342. To CF-BXE in 1943. Listed with Maritime Central Airways. To N2405 in 1969. Withdrawn from use in 2005. Registration expired in 2011. Reported stored in New Jersey. Photo by: Alfred Eisenstaedt / Life

Upgraded from an S-39A. We gather the S-39A did not have the ventral fin. Some twenty S-39 amphibians were built in the early 1930s and mostly sold to private owners despite the Depression. Photo by: Alfred Eisenstaedt / Life

1938: TOS USAAC, assigned to Wright Field, Dayton, OH and used for evaluation testing. 10/1942: Declared restricted and relegated to utility work. 1946: G.H. Baldwin with c/r NC56847. 1954: Two owners operated it for crop dusting. 1965: WFU, stored at Tucson, AZ.. 3/71: Ferried from Albuquerque to the Air Force Museum. 1980 to 1982: Restored and marked as a plane with the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron in 1939. Rare retractable turret was recovered by Darryl Greenamyer from a belly-landed B-18 high atop a Hawaiian mountain.