Only two weeks before this photo was taken, on 26 May 2006, this nice Widgeon landed on a lake near Willow, AK with extended landing gear. It immediately nosed over and sustained significant damage to nose and cockpit. It was salvaged and trucked to the airstrip at Willow, AK, and it is seen here with the damage hidden under a tarpaulin and the registration taped over. Later in 2006 it was dismantled and trucked to Victoria, BC, Canada for repairs by Victoria Air Maintenance. With the repairs completed, N141R was flown back to its owner in Alaska on 17 Feb 2009, still in Royal Navy markings.

CF-KKF was sold in the US as N13122 in 1967. Note that the aircraft is fitted with Lycoming engines.

Manufactured in 1943.

Taxiing in to West Mallings last airshow before being turned into a housing estate, this Widgeon is a very welcome visitor.

In Navy and Coast Guard service the Widgeon flew utility, SAR and antisubmarine missions. On 1st August 1942 in the Gulf of Mexico this aircraft attacked and damaged the German submarine U-171. Now on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola.

One of the classic floatplanes on show at the Alaska Aviation Airshow.

Postwar-built Grumman G-44 amphibian parked on the Harrison Airways apron.

ZK-CFA was registered in July 1963. Photographer not known.

1945-built Widgeon.

This Widgeon entered service with the Navy in Sept. 1943 until her handover in 1948 for seaplane hull design testing. During this time she acquired the name 'Petulant Porpoise' and became the last Widgeon to be retired from USN service in 1954. Subsequently traded between various museums, she arrived at the Pima Air & Space museum in 1987 for display.

Widgeon built in 1945 for US Navy as J4F-2 BuAer No. 37721.

ZK-AVM was converted in 1962 to TEAL Super Widgeon with 260hp Continental IO-470-D engines and two-bladed variable pitch propellers. It arrived in Australia with the intention of registering it locally. But it ran into certification problems and returned to New Zealand. In 1987 it came back to Australia and was registered VH-WET. It then went on to Papua New Guinea (as P2-WET) before once again returning to New Zealand. ZK-AVM was withdrawn from use in 2000. By 2013 it was under restoration in the AvSpecs hangar at Ardmore. AT373N painted on the nose is its registration as a watercraft.

Portuguese Naval Aviation was one of the first forces in the world to have the G-44 at its disposal, putting them into service from Lisbon, Aveiro and the Azores in 1942 with serials between 119 and 130. They were used for liaison, reconnaissance, navigation and photogrammetry training. With the end of Naval Aviation in 1952 the Widgeons went to the Air Force until retirement in 1968. This one, named 'Moçambique' with the Hydrographic Mission there, became CS-AHF before preservation