Dates

Event

Constructed as an OS2U-3.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 5986.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Netherlands Navy with s/n V-21.
Never entered Dutch service because of the war in Netherlands East Indies. In the confusion, the aircraft was taken on charge by the USAAF and diverted to Royal Australian AF. (JBaugher).

2 July 1942

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A48-2 as a Kingfisher I.

July 1942

Transferred to Seaplane Training Flight.

Transferred to No. 3 Operational Training Unit.
Operated with markings: JE-D

Transferred to 107 Squadron.
Operated with markings: JE-B

22 August 1945

Flown to Lake Voga, Victoria, Australia.

22 August 1945

Withdrawn from use.
WFU at Lake Voga and stored.

May 1948

Sold for scrap.

1948

To unknown owner.
Stored on a farm near Merbein, Victoria.

1972

To Warbird Aviation Museum, Mildura.

June 1972

Photographer: Geoff Goodall
Notes: At Warbirds Aviation Museum, Mildura - Vought Sikorsky OS2U Kingfisher A48-2 JE-B was a RAAF Lake Boga disposal which was found on an orchard at nearby Merbein. The orchardist intended to make the main float and two under wing floats into canoes on the River Murray.Pearce later sold this rare Kingfisher and a Catalina to John Bell at Albany WA, where both were restored for display

27 March 1994

Photographer: Reinhard Jost
Notes: A48-2 at Albanys Historic Whaling Station, Discovery Bay, Western Australia

2004

Noted at Malcolm Green Aircraft Museum, Whaleworld, Albany, WA.

2006

To Precision Aerospace/Pacific Aircraft Museum, Wangaratta Airport, Wangaratta, Victoria.
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