This aircraft had been upgraded with 295hp GO-480 Lycoming engines, reversible pitch props and a water rudder, and at one time held the FIA world speed record for it's weight class amphibian over a set distance. On 12th May 1998 it was badly damaged when it landed on a hard runway at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, OH., with it's undercarriage retracted. It is said to have since been repaired and is still current on the USCAR, but the latest online photo that I could find was dated 2012.

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