Tested with full-span manoeuvring flaps called zap flaps, spoiler-type ailerons, and horizontal tailplane with variable camber. Photo from: NASA Ames

Some sources quote full serial of this rare exhibit as 09650. Notable for fixed undercarriage rather than floats.

Boss bird of VS-2 at NAS Quonset Point, which is still under construction. The OS2U was designed to be embarked on warships but, as the 'Neutrality Patrol Star' fuselage roundel indicates, VS-2 was tasked with coastal patrols with its complement of six aircraft, perhaps not all Kingfishers. Photo from: US Navy

Photo taken well before the 12 July 1941 dedication of NAS Quonset Point. The new Building 2 was known as the Neutrality Patrol Hangar. The Kingfisher was used for 'inner patrol', up to 50 miles offshore. US military aircraft did not traditionally wear fuselage roundels. The 'Neutrality Patrol Star' was added from March 1940 on naval aircraft patrolling the USA's Atlantic and Caribbean coastlines. Though the OS2U-2 aircraft are new, the roundel's placement looks like an improvisation. The biplane is a Grumman JF Duck with inter-aileron struts. Photo from: Library of Congress

This very rare aircraft, a Vought Sikorsky Kingfisher is one of only a few examples on display across the world. This example is at the Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio and is marked as its service scheme in the Chilean Navy.

One very rare bird of which less than ten complete examples survive, Chilean Air Force OS2U-3 Kingfisher 314 is on display at Los Cerrillos. Ex Bu5925.

Looking pristine, this Kingfisher was among a batch returned to the US Navy from the Royal Navy in 1943. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Del 15 March 1942 Preserved at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.

Early OS2U Kingfishers of the second section of observation squadron VO-3, therefore assigned to the second ship in the 3rd Battleship Division, USS Mississippi. The division / squadron colour is blue and the second section colour is white. 3-O-4, the section leader's machine, has a white fuselage band and cowling. His first wingman, 3-O-5, has only the top half of the cowling painted white and the second wingman, 3-O-6, the bottom half. Probably brand new, these aircraft, second series BuNos 1714, 1715 and 1716, are fitted with wheels rather than floats here. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Built for the Netherlands but delivered to the RAAF after the Dutch East Indies fell to the Japanese. Fuselage, central float and tailplane ended up on a farm at Merbein, Victoria. Last reported location was with Precision Aerospace at Wangaratta.

Kingfisher built in 1940 and is displayed at NASM Dulles wearing the very early WW2 US Navy colour scheme.

Displayed inside the battleship "Alabama" at Mobile.

Delivered to the US Navy as Bu5926, then transferred to Uruguay through lend-lease agreements. Arrived at the National Naval Aviation Museum in 1971. Painted with fake serial 07534.

Flying this OS2U from the USS Indiana, Lt. j.g. Rollin M. Batten Jr. was awarded the Navy Cross for rescuing two downed aircrew under heavy Japanese fire on 4th July, 1944. The aircraft was earmarked for preservation in 1947 and, after a difficult five year restoration, is now on display at the Smithsonian NASM Udvar-Hazy Center.

On display in the center of Havana.

Buiult for US Navy as 5926. Transferred to Uruguay as A-752. Displayed at Pensacola wearing spurious '07534'.