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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:PBY-5A Catalina
    Last Military Serial:34027 USN
    Construction Number:1581
    Last Civil Registration:N9505C
    Compressed ID:Consolidated PBY-5A sn 34027 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Yanks Air Museum, Baldwin Park, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-5A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 34027.

    1966

    To Alcan Airways, Kingman, AZ with new c/r N9505C.

    Operated as fire service #9.

    1969

    To ntercapital Inc, Las Vegas, NV keeping c/r N9505C.

    27 July 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR9505C issued.

    From 1972 to 1999

    To Robert P. Schlaefli/SLAFCO, Moses Lake, WA keeping c/r N9505C.

    15 September 1976


    Photographer: Greg Lusk
    Notes: Two PBY5As, this one and N31235, were used as retardant and water bombers on a 72,500 acre wildfire in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the late summer of 1976. I was the assistant fire boss for the state on the fire and believe they came from Alaska before they were on our fire.

    15 September 1976


    Photographer: Greg Lusk

    15 September 1976


    Photographer: Greg Lusk

    Operated as fire service #53.

    Circa 1989

    Appeared in the 1989 movie - Always.

    To Ephrata Municipal Airport, Ephrata, WA.
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    9 May 2003


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Moses Lake.

    22 July 2009

    To unknown owner with c/r N9505C.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

    16 May 2010


    Photographer: Axel Klegien
    Notes: N9505C PBY Catalina at Ephrata, Wa

    30 August 2012

    Civil registration, N9505C, cancelled.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Manhattan, MT.

    10 September 2016

    Walking around the ABANDONED 1956 Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina on a windy day at Ephrata Municipal Airport WA - September 10, 2016.

    7 October 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Ephrata, Washington, U.S.A.

    3 July 2024

    To Yanks Air Museum, Baldwin Park, CA with new c/r N9505C.
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    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
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