The AURI received six PBY-5s in 1951, but this is not one of them. In fact it was delivered to the USN as BuNo 46539, bought by Charlotte Aircraft Corp in 1954 and registered N1563M. It was stored in the open at Elizabeth City, NC till 1985. Rebuilt to airworthy status in private hands by 1990 but not flown, it was instead shipped to the Central Museum of the Indonesian AF (in exchange for the right to recover several Japanese aircraft wrecks). Previously displayed as PB-505

This Catalina is displayed outdoors under a roof at Museum Pusat TNI-AU Dirgantara Mandala and carries the emblem of Skadron Udara 5, which had six of these aircraft based at Husein Sastranegara. This particular aircraft is not the real PB-501 but ex N1563M, which was shipped from California to the museum by Bruce Fenstermaker in exchange for salvage rights to collect WW2 Japanese aircraft on Babo Island.

Formerly 46539 of the US Navy and N1563M, this Catalina used to be in open storage in Elizabeth City. Shipped to Java, she is now in the Indonesian air force museum representing an Air Squadron 5 aircraft.