Dates

Event

1943

Constructed as an UC-64A.
Built by Noorduyn Aircraft Ltd, at their Cartierville factory just north of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

2 December 1943

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-5278.

From 8 March 1944 to Circa November 1947

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A71-12.

28 November 1947

To Kingsford Smith Aviation Services.
For conversion to civil use.

15 February 1949

To Silver City Airways (Australia) Pty Ltd, Broken Hill, NSW with new c/r VH-BHG.

18 December 1951

To Zinc Corp Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria keeping c/r VH-BHG.

15 July 1953

Photographer: Henry W. Pryor
Notes: Eagle Farm, Brisbane 1953, probably on delivery flight to New Guinea for Gibbes Sepik Airways

17 July 1953

To Gibbes Sepik Airways, Wewak, Papua New Guinea keeping c/r VH-BHG.

January 1959

To Mandated Airlines Ltd, Lae PNG with new c/r VH-GSB.

April 1960

To Ansett-MAL Ltd, Lae PNG keeping c/r VH-GSB.

11 June 1962

To Robert H, Gibbes, Goroka, PNG with new c/r VH-RHG.

5 March 1965

To Pay (and) Williamson Pty Ltd, Scone NSW with new c/r VH-GSG.
Agricultural hopper installed.

July 1967

Photographer: Geoff Goodall
Notes: Pay and Williamson at Scone NSW purchased three former New Guinea airliner Noorduyn Norsemans in 1963-64 and had themtanked up as heavy crop dusters. They proved to be economical phosphate top dressers, often operating in pairs. VH-GSG was at Scone in July 1967

22 October 1968

To Ed Fleming/Skyservice Aviation Pty Ltd, Camden Airport NSW keeping c/r VH-GSG.

June 1970

Photographer: Roger McDonald
Notes: The last Norseman flying in Australia was VH-GSG, being used for mineral survey operations, seen at Bankstown in June 1970

21 July 1973

Civil registration, VH-GSG, cancelled.

1974

To Edward G. Fleming, Vancouver, BC with new c/r CF-ISM.

June 1974

To D. C. Jorgenson, Ignace, ON keeping c/r CF-ISM.

1976

To Grand Rapids Air, Saint-Norbert, MB keeping c/r CF-ISM.

August 1976

Photographer: Phil Hansen
Notes: CF-ISM at Selkirk, Manitoba August 1976.

16 June 1978

Destroyed in a crash.
Crashed on take-off from Lake Witchai, Manitoba. The pilot reported that shortly after takeoff from the lake at 1230 local time, at about 350 feet altitude, he found the aircraft very difficult to control. To avoid trees ahead he started a turn to the left back over the lake. He was unable to control the aircraft and it struck the water heavily in a nose down attitude. The passenger drowned when the aircraft sank. Investigators estimated that the aircraft was at or over the maximum authorized weight limit.