Sold in the US as N70AQ in December 1984. Bob Kerr photo

Sold in Fiji as DQ-FDQ in September 1982. Returned to New Zealand in in December 1984, Sold in Australia as VH-ENY in November 1989. Bob Kerr photo

(photographer not known)

Later re-registered as VH-MBA. Was intended to serve the Yakuave Resorts, but the deal fell through. Ex US Navy, Royal Navy, Bay Valley Air Service, Alaska Coastal Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Kodiak Airlines before migrating to the warmer South Pacific (photographed by G. Bühlmann)

Thanks to the Airport Manager, flew with him and the owner from the water at Lake Hood to the runway at Talkeetna for a burger break. Returned to the Lake Hood but could not get ashore at the entry slipway. Had to water-taxi across to the Government Dock and take the road round the Lake back to the hangar. Wonderful experience !!

Sitting outside its Pacific Coastal base hangar at Port Hardy Airport on the northern tip of Vancouver Island BC

Sitting outside its Pacific Coastal base hangar at Port Hardy Airport on the northern tip of Vancouver Island BC.

The second Grumman Goose, owned by Henry Morgan, one of ten affluent Long Island businessmen who requested the design of the G-21. Morgan's wife and friends made a trip all the way to Texas in the aircraft. Like other early Geese it was acquired by the Canadian air force in 1940. It crashed at Nassau in the Bahamas in 1947 as VP-BAE. Photo from: San Antonio Light / University of Texas at San Antonio

Fresh from the factory. Struck off charge in 1945. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Withdrawn from use in 1947 and sold as NC68902. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Delivered to a civilian buyer in 1937. Bought by the Canadian air force in 1940 as serial 942. Post World War II had a civilian career in Canada as CF-BHL until lost in an accident in 1953. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Crashed while in service with the Peruvian air corps, with two dates given - December 6, 1943 or April 10, 1945. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

V185 continued in USCG service until the end of World War II. It was disposed of in 1946 as NC95400. The aircraft is current in 2023 on the Canadian register as C-FUAZ. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

registered to Tropical Sea Air Co., sold to European Coastal Airways, Munich in 1995. Shipped to Hamburg / Landsberied for restoration

Photographed stored after the closure of Antilles Air Boats the previous year. The aircraft was built as a US Navy JRF-5 BuNo 37793 but was sent to the Royal Navy, and later the RCAF, as FP471 and civilianised as NR46497, then NC1048V, post WWII. It was trucked away from Opa-locka in October 1983 and is thought to have been dismantled and used in the restoration of Goose N327 c/n 1051. (Thanks to Joe Baugher and Bill Bailey for information).

The full civilian history of this aircraft can be found at http://www.wdaguy.com/N87U.html. The aircraft was last reported painted in blue US Navy colours undergoing restoration at Northwest Regional Airport, Roanoke, TX., in June 2019.

US Navy Grumman JRF-5 Goose 87744 (cn B-138) served 1945 - 52. The US Department of Interior, Fish & Wildlife Service flew it as N779 1954 - 64 before the the amphibian was converted to a McKinnon G-21C Turbo Goose (new cn 1203) and sold to the Government of British Columbia as CF-BCI. Airline service was next with Air West / Air BC 1973 - 84 before uprated engines changed the aircraft to a G-21G and the it was sold to Crown Forest Industries. To Peninsula Airways (PenAir) in 1991 as N660PA , it disappeared on a flight from Anderson Bay to Unalaska in Alaska on August 11, 1996.

Delivered to the US Navy in June 1943 as JRF-5, Bu No. 34071. Retired to NAS Litchfield Park, AZ and registered N9547C in 1957. To Coastal Aero, Houston, TX as N27Q (1957-1964). To Gordon Gulbertson, CA in 1963. Imported to Canada by Northern Mountain Airlines in March 1964 and upgraded by McKinnon at Sandy, OR in May 1964. To Midwest Airlines, Winnipeg 1969-1972. To West Coast Air Services (WCA) in Nov. 1972. The G-21A was on a scheduled flight from Tofino to Vancouver on Sep 9, 1974 when it crashed in Nitinat Canyon, Mount Cooper, about 10 m north of Lake Cowichan in poor weather. 9 killed.

This Turbo Goose was owned by the Halliburton Co. when at KNEW in Jan. 1985. G-21A, msn 1013, sold to J.P. Bickell and McIntyre-Porcupine Mines in Toronto as CF-BKE in 1938. Gift to RCAF in Sep. 1939 as No. 926. Flew in BC with No. 13 (OT), 120 (BR) & 122 (K) Sqns. (1940-1943). To RCAF Photo Flt and No. 167 (Comm) Sqn. (1943-45). To Charles H. Babb in Jan 1945 as NC18175. To Halliburton in Jun 1954. Cvt by McKinnon in Sandy, OR to G-21E Turbo Goose, msn 1211 with P&WC PT6A-27s in May 1970. Sold Nov 1992 to Air Power. To Stallion Aircraft/John Rogers 1995. Crashed KBPA, Jun 13, 1995. 2 killed.