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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:PBY-6A Catalina
    Last Military Serial:46662 USN
    Construction Number:2026
    Last Civil Registration:N4NC {1}
    Compressed ID:Consolidated PBY-6A sn 46662 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Liberty Aviation Museum Inc, Port Clinton, OH

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-6A.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 46662.

    Circa 1956

    To unknown owner with c/r N9588C.

    1963

    To Carl H. Ingwer, Tucson AZ with new c/r N788C.

    1966

    To Moral Rearmament Inc, New York, NY keeping c/r N788C.

    January 1967

    Ferry flight.
    Ferried Long Beach CA to Winnipeg, MAN.

    2 February 1967

    To Great Lakes Paper Co Ltd, Fort William, ON with new c/r CF-VIG.

    2 March 1967

    Certificate of airworthiness for CF-VIG (28-5ACF, 46662) issued.

    From 25 February 1972 to 1979

    To Avalon Aviation Ltd, Laval, QC with new c/r C-FVIG.

    August 1972

    Leased to Leased to Omega Airways Ltd, Montreal, QC.

    September 1972

    Leased to Leased to Austin Airways, Timmins, ON.

    July 1973

    Leased to Leased to Ilford Riverton Airways, Winnipeg, MAN.

    July 1974

    Leased to Leased to Eastcan Exploration Ltd, Calgary, AB.

    Circa 1976


    Photographer: Unknown

    March 1979

    To Anchor Land (and) Cattle Corp, Grundy VA with new c/r N1022G.

    27 March 1979

    To Anchor Land (and) Cattle Corp, Grundy VA with new c/r N999AR.

    11 May 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for N999AR (28-5ACF, 46662) issued.

    1984

    To Red Stevenson, Leonard, OK keeping c/r N999AR.

    1 August 1984

    To Wilson C. Edwards, Big Spring, TX keeping c/r N999AR.
    Markings added: The Searcher

    March 1986

    To Wilson C. Edwards, Big Spring, TX with new c/r N4NC {1}.

    May 1986

    Flew to England to commemorate US Navy Curtiss NC-4 Atlantic flight, also with C-FOWE.

    2 August 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    July 1993


    Photographer: Chris Redford
    Notes: At EAA Airventure at Oshkosh

    To Wilson Connie Edwards Ranch, Edwards Lucian Wells Ranch Airport, Big Spring, TX.
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    1 January 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4NC {1} (28-5ACF, 46662) issued.

    10 August 2017

    To Wilson C. Edwards, Big Spring, TX keeping c/r N4NC {1}.

    24 September 2019

    To William Scott Glover, Mount Pleasant, TX keeping c/r N4NC {1}.

    14 February 2022

    To Liberty Aviation Museum Inc, Port Clinton, OH keeping c/r N4NC {1}.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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