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Dates |
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Event |
1943 |
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Constructed as a Canso A. |
2 June 1943 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 9815. |
1961 |
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Transferred to Crown Assets Disposal Corporation, Ottawa, ON. |
1961 |
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Assigned to Vulcan AB, AB for storage.
Sent to Vulcan for disposal. |
25 May 1961 |
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Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Canadian Air Force. |
1961 |
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To Frontier Air Transport Co, Calgary, AB. |
April 1961 |
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To Canspec Air Transport Ltd, Calgary, AB with new c/r CF-NJB. |
1961 |
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Ferried from Vulcan AB to Calgary for civil conv. to sprayer by Field Aviation. |
From 1961 to 1963 |
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Operated by Field Aviation, Calgary.
Used for pest control spraying. |
20 June 1963 |
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To Kenting Aviation Ltd, Toronto ONT keeping c/r CF-NJB. |
1963 |
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Converted to a water tanker by Field Aircraft. |
May 1966 |
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Leased to Protection Civile, Marseille. |
May 1966 |
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Assigned civil registration: F-ZBAR {2} |
6 May 1966 |
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Ferry flight.
Delivered from Canada to France via Dublin. |
September 1966 |
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To Kenting Aviation, Toronto, ON with new c/r CF-NJB. |
16 September 1966 |
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Ferry flight.
Flown from Marseille to Dublin. |
18 September 1966 |
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Ferry flight.
Flown from Dublin to Keflavik. |
May 1968 |
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Leased to Protection Civile, Marseille, France. |
May 1968 |
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Assigned civil registration: F-ZBBC |
September 1968 |
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To Kenting Aviation: with new c/r CF-NJB.
Returned from France. |
From 18 September 1968 to 21 October 1969 |
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Ferry flight.
Delivered from France to Canada via Dublin. |
July 1972 |
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Fitted 2600 gallon retardant tanks. |
26 April 1974 |
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To Norcanair Ltd, Prince Albert, SK with new c/r C-FNJB. |
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Operated as fire service #10. |
July 1979 |
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Photographer: Russell Brown / Eric Bannwarth Collection
Notes: C-FNJB - PBY-5A Canso - Norcanair |
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Operated as fire service #9. |
From 23 June 1980 to 1997 |
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To Province of Saskatchewan, La Ronge, SK keeping c/r C-FNJB. |
Circa July 1980 |
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Operated as fire service #9. |
4 September 1997 |
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To Hicks and Lawrence Ltd, Saint Thomas ONT keeping c/r C-FNJB. |
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Operated as fire service #9. |
January 1998 |
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Converted from a tanker to a 12 passenger configuration at Nanaimo, BC. Planned for tourist ops. on River Zambesi, Zimbabwe. |
25 May 2001 |
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Photographer: Unknown
Notes: Photographed at Nanaimo, BC, Canada. |
From 2001 to 2004 |
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Withdrawn from use.
Retired at Nanaimo, BC. |
17 February 2004 |
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Civil registration, C-FNJB, cancelled. |
From 2007 to 2010 |
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To YTL Charters, Nanaimo BC with new c/r C-FNJB. |
From 2007 to 2010 |
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YTL Charters, Nanaimo, BC. |
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To Nanimo Airport, Nanaimo, BC.
 View the Location Dossier |
27 September 2009 |
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Photographer: John W. Olafson
Notes: After sitting derelict and vandalised at Nanaimo for over 10 years this 1943 ex RCAF Canso was made airworthy and flown to Oregon in 2011 to be displayed in a museum |
2010 |
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To Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville, OR.
View the Location Dossier |
2010 |
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Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville, OR. |
13 June 2011 |
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To Michael King Smith Foundation, McMinnville, OR with new c/r N249SB. |
6 August 2011 |
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Photographer: Stewart. W. Bailey |
By 23 June 2012 |
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Markings Applied: 44-P-4, 04982
Evergreen have painted the plane in a Second World War U.S. Navy scheme and display it as Aircraft 44-P-4, the Navy PBY 5 that spotted the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Midway. |
23 June 2012 |
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Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: 2012 Photo at Evergreen Air and Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon |
6 February 2017 |
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To Falls At McMinnville Llc, West Jordan, UT keeping c/r N249SB. |
