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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:PBY-6A Catalina
    Last Military Serial:64002 USN
    Construction Number:131-2073
    Last Civil Registration:N331RS
    Compressed ID:Consolidated PBY-6A sn 64002 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-6A.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 64002.

    By 1953

    Transferred to NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    10 February 1953

    Damaged.
    Damaged during landing 15 mi ENE of St. Augustine, FL. Pilot error.

    3 November 1953

    Damaged.
    Damaged in landing accident, NAS Jacksonville.

    1962

    To Joe G. Marrs, Lake Placid, FL with new c/r N9548C.

    24 November 1964

    To Rolled Steel Corp, Skokie, IL with new c/r N331RS (28-5ACF, 64002).

    27 August 1966

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. This was a training flight. The accident occurred at off Highland Park, IL (United States of America) while landing. Narrative: Struck a submerged object with the left hand pontoon during landing and sank. PROBABLE CAUSE:miscellaneous - foreign object damageFACTOR:miscellaneous acts,conditions - aircraft came to rest in water.
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    19 June 1970

    Civil registration, N331RS, cancelled.

    Recovered.
    The submerged wreck was retrieved from Lake Michigan.

    By 1972

    To Victory Air Museum/Earl Reinert, Air Estates Inc Airport, Mundelein, IL.
    Wreck displayed.
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    12 August 1979


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1979 photo at Victory Aircraft Museum, Mundelein, IL of a Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina that sank in Lake Michigan in 1966 when it hit a submerged object on landing.

    June 1980


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    Circa 1980

    To Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation (MARC)/David Tallichet, Anaheim, CA.
    Mr. Tallichet was gathering other PBY wrecks and flying examples.
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    Based at National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Aircraft was acquired for parts used to restore 46595.
    For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier
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    1986

    Scrapped.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Aviation Safety Network
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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