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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:OA-10A Catalina
    Last Military Serial:32 MN
    Construction Number:CV-332
    Last Civil Registration:CC-CDT
    Compressed ID:Canadian Vickers OA-10A sn 32 MN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport, Santiago, Region Metropolitana

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a PBV-1A by Canadian Vickers.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 67844.
    Not taken up.

    1944

    Converted to an OA-10A by Canadian Vickers.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-33880.

    18 May 1945

    Crashed.

    1950

    New construction number, CV-596, assigned to the airframe.
    Aircraft repaired using fuselage of USAAF 44-34085 cn CV-596.

    1950

    To Aero Corp, Atlanta, GA with new c/r N1933M.

    14 May 1951

    Civil registration, N1933M, cancelled.
    Exported to Iceland.

    15 May 1951

    To Aero Corp, Atlanta, GA with new c/r N1933M.
    Last CR action date noted here.

    15 May 1951

    Civil registration, N1933M, cancelled.
    Exported to Iceland.

    1951

    To Loftleidir with new c/r TF-RVR.

    July 1952

    To Maritime Central Airways with new c/r CF-FKV.

    To Wheeler Airlines keeping c/r CF-FKV.

    Circa 1966

    To UTA with new c/r F-WMKS.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Marine Nationale with s/n 32 and operated with these markings: 32.
    Used callsign F-YCHB.

    1974

    To Roberto Parrague, with new c/r CC-CDT.

    To Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport, Santiago, Region Metropolitana.
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    21 February 2009


    Photographer: Andre Bonacin
    Notes: 2009 photo taken at Santiago International

    2012

    Markings Applied: Manu-tara 405
    Painted to represent a Chilean Air Force OA-10A Chile and Easter Island in 1951.

    2014


    Photographer: Gonzalo Parrague
    Notes: Airworthy CV332 has been painted with Manu-Tara (CV-520) paint scheme for the movie El vuelo del Manutara (Dir. Elias Llano)

    Circa 2014


    Photographer: Gonzalo Parrague
    Notes: 2014/2015

    16 January 2019


    Photographer: Ernst Haueter
    Notes: Santiago de Chile SCL
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