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 Withdrawn from use in 1969, Became N49115 in 1984.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 Passed through various owners before being withdrawn from use at Lakeport California by 2013.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

Ex Royal Canadian Air Force CSR-110 9306, withdrawn by 1970. Registered N9387 and sold via Grumman Aerospace to Mexico in 1974. Seen displayed next to the parade ground, the aircraft was relocated in 2012 and is now displayed next to the base HQ.

Last operational unit was 129th Air Commando Squadron based at Hayward California as part of the California ANG, to MASDC in November 1963 with code HP003 and to the museum at Pima circa 1971. Displayed following restoration in the markings of the 31st Air Rescue Squadron, Clark AB, Philippines

Taxiing in San Francisco Bay while approaching the seaplane ramp to CGAS San Francisco.

Originally delivered to the USAF as 49-074 in 1950. Transferred to the Brazilian Air Force in 1958 as 6530. Withdrawn in 1980 and sold in 1984, Registered as PP-ZAS in 1991. Became N97HU in 1994, and ferried to Canada for restoration in March 1996. First post-restoration flight in early 1997. Sold in Mexico in 2004 as XB-JHH. On 10 August of that year forced down by the Mexican authorities on a suspected drug-running flight. Beached and abandoned on the Mexican coast at Playa de la Ventanilla, near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. Subsequent to the removal of its engines, the airframe was left derelict and over the years sank slowly into the sand.