Fire bomber photographed undergoing maintenance, the registration can just be discerned under the wing, it was re-registered N324FA to Airborne Fire Attack Inc. the following month, and it was planned that it would replace PBY-5A N322FA which had come to grief whilst scooping water at San Vincente Reservoir in August of that year. However for whatever reason this never happened and it passed to the Commemorative Air Force, (CAF), and after the discovery of severe airframe corrosion it is now exhibited statically at the CAF Lake Superior Squadron, at Richard I. Bong Airport, Superior, WI.

One of four PBYs operated by Midwest Aviation on northern supply routes. Later it became a water bomber, then in 1997 it was exported to the American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum as N324FA.

Sold in the US as N324FA. Operated by the Commemorative Air Force in an air tanker configuration.