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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:PBY-5 Catalina
    Last Military Serial:08317 USN
    Construction Number:1211
    Compressed ID:Consolidated PBY-5 sn 08317 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-5.

    28 January 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 08317.

    28 February 1943

    Transferred to Fleet Air Wing 14.

    March 1943

    Transferred to NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Spent its entire service life as a training aircraft.

    From 1948 to 1965

    Assigned to NAS Norfolk, VA for storage.

    1948

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    1965

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Paul Garber Facility, Silver Hill, MD.
    View the Location Dossier

    1973

    Loaned to National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    1991


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Pensacola.

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Credits
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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