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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:PBY-5A Catalina
    Last Military Serial:MP-52 FAMe
    Construction Number:1960
    Last Civil Registration:EC-693
    Compressed ID:Consolidated PBY-5A sn MP-52 FAMe c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museo Del Aire (Air Museum), Cuatro Vientos, Madrid, Madrid

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-5A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 46596.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the FA Mexicana with s/n MP-52.

    25 September 1967

    To Flight International Inc, Burbank, CA with new c/r N45998.

    28 September 1967

    Civil registration, N45998, cancelled.

    Circa October 1967

    To The Flying Fireman Ltd, Sidney BC with new c/r CF-FFW.

    Operated as fire service #4.

    A tailplane from a Super Catalina was installed but the original PandW R-1830s were retained.

    From By 1981 to By 1992

    To The Flying Fireman Ltd, Sidney, BC with new c/r C-FFFW.

    Operated as fire service #774 with markings: Bubbles

    From May 1984 to 1992

    Involved in an incident.
    Sank in Silver Lake, ON.

    Repaired.
    Recovered and repaired.

    August 1986


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: C-FFFW - PBY-5A Catalina - The Flying Fireman Ltd. at Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC.

    From 1988 to By 1992

    Operated by Awood Air Ltd, Thunder Bay, ON.

    From 1992 to By 1993

    To Servicios Aereos Espanoles SA-SAESA, Cuatro Vientos with new c/r EC-314.

    From March 1993 to 1993

    Civil registration, C-FFFW, cancelled.
    Deregistered due to export to Spain.

    Operated as fire service #74.

    From By 1993 to By 1996

    To SAESA, Cuatro Vientos with new c/r EC-693.

    From February 1996 to 1996

    To Museo Del Aire (Air Museum), Cuatro Vientos, Madrid, Madrid.
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    By May 1996


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at the Museo Del Aire.

    2006


    Photographer: Andy West

    Markings Applied: DR.1/74-21

    3 October 2013


    Photographer: John Yates
    Notes: Displayed at Museo Del Aire (Air Museum), Cuatro Vientos Air Base, Madrid

    13 October 2019


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Notes: Falsely marked Spanish Air Force DR.1-1 / 74-21 in Museo de Aeronautica y Astronautica (Museo del Aire) at Cuatro Vientos Airport, Madrid, Spain 13. October 2019.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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