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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:OA-10 Catalina
    Last Military Serial:44-33954 USAAF
    Construction Number:CV-465
    Last Civil Registration:N57875
    Compressed ID:Consolidated OA-10 sn 44-33954 USAA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Alaska Aviation Museum, Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-5A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 67918.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-33954 as a OA-10.

    30 September 1947

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. This was a military flight. The accident occurred at Dago Lake, AK (United States of America) while landing. Narrative: The Canso plane was abandoned after a forced landing at Dago Lake, Alaska. It was recovered in 1984 and moved to the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum at Anchorage.
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    30 March 1984

    To unknown owner with c/r N44BY (PBY-5A, 44-33954).

    To unknown owner with c/r N57875 (OA-10, 4433954).

    21 July 1986

    To unknown owner with c/r N57875 (OA-10, 4433954).
    Sale Reported, Juneau, AK.

    By 22 August 1987

    Based at Alaska Aviation Museum, Lake Hood, Anchorage, AK.
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    By August 1989


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Lake Hood, OR.

    21 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2008 photo taken at Alaskan Aviation Heritage Museum, Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska

    13 May 2009


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At the Alaska Aviation Museum, Lake Hood, Anchorage, AL

    13 May 2009


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: In the early morning light at Lake Hood, AK

    8 April 2011

    Civil registration, N44BY, cancelled.

    6 March 2013

    Civil registration, N57875, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Juneau, AK.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aviation Safety Network
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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