ex Paraguay 2002, T-29.

Former US Navy as 48317. Registered as N1495V in 1951 for ferry flight to the Netherlands. To the Netherlands Navy as P-212 in 1952, later 16-212. Preserved at Bosbad Hoeven from 1957. Moved to the Militaire Luchtvaart Museum - MLM, Kamp Zeist in 1984 then to Soesterberg for storage in 2005. Moved to the Nederlands Transport Museum, Nieuw-Vennep for restoration in 2020.

Flown on survey work throughout southern Africa for Geoterrex in the mid 1970s and early 1980s. Subsequently became G-BLSC, VR-BPS and VP-BPS. Crashed in Southampton Water 27th July 1998 and sadly, despite attempts to restore the aircraft, she was scrapped at Dublin, Weston in 2012.

This USCG PBY was based at Argentina in Newfoundland and came to the rescue following the crash of a Sabena DC-4, OO-CBG, near Gander. Two early USCG helicopters, a Sikorsky HOS-1 and HSN-1 051, took survivors from the crash site to the shore of Gander Lake where they were transferred to the PBY. 48314 is a retained US Navy BuNo. The V prefix for USCG serials was officially discontinued on 28 December 1945. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland

Picture was taken by my father (Hendrik Prins) who served within the Navy in Nieuw Guinea till 1959. In August 1956 it was withdrawn from use after encountering an incident.

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Originally USN BuNo 46624. Later registered as N9502C and noted as derelict at the premises of the No. 94 Aero Squadron Restaurant at Clearwater/St Petersburg Airport, US from 1976 to 1982. Restored to USN colors and placed on static display at the Aviation Heritage Museum, Bull Creek, Australia.

Picking up fish at Savage Island, Island Lake from Kee-No-Zae Co-operative Ltd destined for Winnipeg and elsewhere . One northbound trip carried diesel in a wing tank, the next northbound carried outboard motor gasoline and the next was avgas for our aircraft thus avoiding most contamination!

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

Photographer: Karl Krämer.

The Flying Fireman was formed in Victoria (by Alex Davidson and Bill Harrison) to operate two PBY-5s water bombers out of Prince George (CF-NTL and N609FF) in 1965 and 1966. By 1973, BC was fully committed to land-based retardant air tankers but continued to use PBYs on a casual basis, and Flying Fireman found work elsewhere in Canada and the US. This PBY-5 served with the US Navy as BuNo 46522 and became N5585V. Imported to Canada in 1972 and operated as tanker #7 and #777. January 1990 to Erickson Group Ltd in Oregon as N2172N. To Erickson Aircraft Collection in 2012 and Avenger LLC in 2016.

Former RCAF 9830. Owned by Collings Foundation and appears to be undergoing restoration at American Aero Services.