This is the CL-415 prototype, first flown on 6 December 1993 as C-GSCT and thus already 30 years old.

Delivered to SAS as SE-CCF in 1957. Sold as N9734Z in 1962. Converted to a firebomber then to T&G Aviation in 1977. To Basaer Baquero Servicios Aereos as EC-889 in 1995. Reregistered as EC-GGC in 1996. Withdrawn from use at Cordoba, Spain in 2000. Preserved at Parque de Miraflores Cordoba from 2011.

Delivered to SAS in 1957 a SE-CCF. Sold to the USA to become N9734Z in 1962. Changed hands between various leasing companies and operated by The Facilities Management Corporation and Stardusters Air Travel before being converted to a fire bomber in 1977 for operation by T & G Aviation as seen here, still wearing the basic Stardusters scheme. Sold in Spain to BASAER as EC-889 in 1995 and re-registered EC-GGC in 1996, it was stored at Cordoba airport in 2000 and preserved in the city at the Parque de Miraflores by 2011. Still present at time of upload.

T & G Aviation's tanker 32 getting ready for the 1982 fire season The airliner was originally Yngve Viking with SAS Scandinavian Airlines System delivered in 1957 (SE-CCF). Bought by aircraft broker Lee Mansdorf Company in 1962, it was registered N9734Z. Sergio Tomassoni (who formed T & G Aviation along with William Grantham in 1973) acquired N9734Z in 1976. Converted to a fire bomber in 1977, it was operated by T & G 1977 - 95. Registered in Spain to Basaer Baquero Servicios Aereos as EC- 889 (EC-GGC in 1996), it was stored at Cordoba airport in 2000 and later preserved in the city.

WFU 1991 and broken up later at Amarillo (TX)

Ex US Army 62-2084 and purchased by Lee County Health Dept. ex Davis Monthan for mosquito spraying. Preserved by the Whittier Aviation Museum and at the Wings and Rotors Air Museum, French Valley Airport, Murrieta, CA in 2014.

26 Oct 1945: Left the production line as 44-35948 after WWII ended so it went directly to RFC at Kingman, AZ. 2/46: Registered NL67164. 1961: Registered as N1244. 1965: Registered N910H. 1968: Registered N161H. 1970: Grumman Ecosystems, for electronic survey work. 7/75: Conair Aviation Ltd, Abbotsford, BC with c/r C-GHLX. Converted to fire-tanker. 7/87: Air Spray, Alberta. 19 June '09: Champaign Aviation Museum, Grimes Field, Urbana, OH, as N381EC. When photo was taken it had become N381EC but the old registration had yet to be removed and the new one applied.

The CL-415 prototype (ex C-GSCT). Delivered to the Sécurité Civile in July 1995.

This aircraft is widely quoted, also officially, as CV-332, but this is not correct. It is in fact a composite aircraft constructed in 1950 by Aero Corp. (Atlanta, GA), using the fuselage of OA-10A 44-34085 c/n CV-596 (which is this aircraft's correct identity). But when in Sep 1950 it was officially registered as N1933M, it was given the fictitious c/n 332 (later changed to CV-332). Since then this error was copied for all its subsequent identities: TF-RVR, CF-FKV, F-WMKS, French Navy 32 and CC-CDT. C/n 332 was RAAF Catalina A24-16 (w/o 10 Apr 1943) and c/n CV-332 was USAAF OA-10A Catalina 44-33880 (w/o 18 May 1945). It seems very unlikely that any part of either aircraft was used in the construction of this Catalina.

After visiting us for the first time a week earlier, they came back for fuel on the return journey from Sweden to France. Truly amazing machines and a big thanks to the crew for allowing me to have a look inside.

A closer look at PELICAN32 (sporting "50 years" stickers) as it waits for its crew to return from the pre-flight preparations. They dropped in for fuel on their way from Marseille to Sweden. They were going to help the Swedish authorities fight a massive forest fire in the vicinity of Stockholm. Also note the pelican sticker on the nose.

The Sécurité Civile has arrived at Groningen again, on the way back from Stockholm to their homebase in Marseille. They spent a week up north battling a huge forest fire in the vicinity of Stockholm.