Registration / Serial:VH-WWC
Aircraft Original Type:Consolidated 28 Catalina
Aircraft Generic Type:Consolidated PBY Catalina
Aircraft Version:Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
C/n (msn):1859
City / Seaplane Base:Port Moresby - Seaplane (closed)Map
Country:Papua New Guinea
Photo Date:1958
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Photo ID:114123Submit Correction
View count: 539
VH-WWC was operated by World Wide Air Services in Papua New Guinea on behalf of Australasian Petroleum for oil exploration. In 1961 it was sold to Trans Australia Airlines for use on airline services . It struck a submerged object and sank at Daru on April 26, 1962. The seaplane base at Port Moresby operated from 1939 to 1966. In 1967 it became a patrol boat base, for the Australian Navy and today the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. Photo from Trans Australia Airlines.
Registration / Serial:VH-WWC
Aircraft Version:Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
C/n (msn):1859
City / Seaplane Base:Port Moresby - Seaplane (closed)Map
Country:Papua New Guinea
Photo Date:1958
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Registration / Serial:VH-WWC
Aircraft Original Type:Consolidated 28 Catalina
Aircraft Generic Type:Consolidated PBY Catalina
Aircraft Version:Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
C/n (msn):1859
City / Seaplane Base:Port Moresby - Seaplane (closed)Map
Country:Papua New Guinea
Photo Date:1958
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Photo ID:114123Submit Correction
View count: 539
VH-WWC was operated by World Wide Air Services in Papua New Guinea on behalf of Australasian Petroleum for oil exploration. In 1961 it was sold to Trans Australia Airlines for use on airline services . It struck a submerged object and sank at Daru on April 26, 1962. The seaplane base at Port Moresby operated from 1939 to 1966. In 1967 it became a patrol boat base, for the Australian Navy and today the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. Photo from Trans Australia Airlines.
Registration / Serial:VH-WWC
Aircraft Version:Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
C/n (msn):1859
City / Seaplane Base:Port Moresby - Seaplane (closed)Map
Country:Papua New Guinea
Photo Date:1958
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)