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Constructed as a PBY-6A. |
Circa 1944 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 46644. |
Circa 1958 |
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To Leo Demers/ACE Flying Service of Salem, OR with new c/r N6458C.
Operated with markings: 24 |
June 1958 |
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Photographer: Peter W. Orr
Notes: PBY spray plane warming up at Baker airstrip. Western spruce budworm control project. Oregon. |
From By 1963 to By 1964 |
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To Farmers Air Service, Klamath Falls, OR keeping c/r N6458C. |
By 1966 |
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To Liston Aircraft, Klamath Falls, OR keeping c/r N6458C.
Markings added: F46 |
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Operated as fire service #F46. |
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Operated as fire service #F33. |
From 21 October 1968 to By 1978 |
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To Hemet Valley Flying Service Co Inc, Hemet, CA keeping c/r N6458C.
Markings added: E83 |
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Photographer: William T Larkins
Notes: N6458C Tanker E83 - Hemet Valley Flying Service PBY at Columbia, California. |
5 December 1978 |
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Civil registration, N6458C, cancelled. |
From May 1979 to By 1989 |
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To The Flying Fireman Ltd, Sidney, BC with new c/r C-GFFH. |
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Operated as fire service #778 with markings: 8 |
August 1986 |
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Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
Notes: At Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC. |
From 1988 to By 1989 |
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Operated by Atwood Air Ltd, Victoria, BC. |
October 1989 |
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Civil registration, C-GFFH, cancelled.
Sold to spain and struck of the register. |
From 1989 to By 1990 |
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To Servicios Aereos Espanoles (SA-SAESA), Cuatro Vientos with new c/r EC-359. |
From 5 July 1990 to By 2005 |
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To SAESA Servicios Aereos Espaoles S. A, Cuatro Vientos, Madrid, Spain with new c/r EC-EVK. |
Circa 1993 |
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Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
Notes: EC-EVK - PBY-5A Catalina - ICONA |
By October 1994 |
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Photographer: Unknown
Notes: Photographed at Cuatro Vientos. |
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Operated as fire service #71. |
From By 1997 to By 2004 |
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Withdrawn from use and placed in open storage at Cuatro Vientos. |
From 1998 to October 2004 |
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Withdrawn from use.
Cuatro Vientos. |
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To Raul Aranda, Cuatro Vientos with new c/r EC-EVK. |
June 2001 |
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Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
Notes: EC-EVK - PBY-5A Catalina - Aerocondor in June 2001 |
From By 2004 to By 2005 |
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Restoration work underway at Cuatro Vientos with the aim of making the airframe operational. |
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Repainted overall orange and red. |
September 2005 |
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First flight. |
From By 2006 to By 2007 |
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On behalf of the owner stored with/at Cuatro Vientos Air Base, Madrid, Madrid.
Parked at Cuatro Vientos.
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27 January 2006 |
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Flew again. |
30 September 2009 |
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To Qantas Foundation Memorial Ltd, Longreach, QLD with new c/r VH-EAX {2}. |
After October 2009 |
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To QANTAS Founders Outback Museum, Longreach, Queensland.
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