Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

The date is a guess. Photographer: Not known.

Really 6534. One of 10 SA-16s obtained from US stocks in 1959.

The USAF used HU-16s and helicopters for rescuing downed air crew. 51-1006 has been preserved at Ashland, Nebraska. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

On July 27, 1952 this aircraft was dispatched from Wheelus AFB in an attempt to rescue 32 survivors of a Tropic Airways DC-3, ZS-DFB, which had ditched in the Mediterranean Sea due to engine failure. Despite heavy seas it made a successful water landing and took all 32 survivors aboard from their life rafts and waited for surface vessels to arrive. the SA-16 was damaged by metal lifeboats transferring survivors to the ship to the extent that it couldn't fly back to base. it was further damaged being towed back and is seen here being pulled from the water after arriving. Scrapped April 1953.

One of the aircraft ordered by the USAF but passed to the USCG. Withdrawn from use in 1969, Became N49115 in 1984. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

The first USCG Albatross, then designated UF-1G. 1240 was lost on a rescue mission over the Gulf of Mexico on March 6, 1967. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

Flying at the 1999 Chino show. It's history is well documented by David Montgomery in his photo on this site.

This was to be the last Albatross in the US Navy, departing Guantanamo for the Pensacola museum 15 years later on 12 August 1976. The Douglas JD-1 Invader was a target tug or target drone director. The Sikorsky HRS helicopter wears code EG-70 of HMR-263. A Bell HTL-7 is also seen. Photo by: Joe Scherschel / Life

Crashed on 4 August 1970 during landing at Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico.

Gate Guard at the Navy side of U-Tapao is this well preserved HU-16D

The George T Baker Aviation School is located just outside the Eastern fence of the airport. The cockpit section is preserved falsely marked as 1267./cn G-412. That airframe was exported to the Phillippines.

Preserved in the March AFB Museum, on the main apron. The museum has since relocated off-base on the west side of the airfield, and March is now known as "March Field".

Ex USAF 52-0134, Stored at Mojave for several years before being registered as N4470W in 1983. Passed through various owners before being withdrawn from use at Lakeport California by 2013. Cancelled from the US register in May 2013