Photographer Anthony Pestalozzi

Ex USN 46665, N9555C, CC-CNG, CC-CNP, EC-593, EC-CNP, VH-DUL, VH-CAT, N160AT and back to VH-CAT Owned in 2016 by the The Catalina Flying Memorial Ltd. Still Stored in Bankstown.

(ex USN BuAer 46651) obtained in 1955 and registered TF-RAN (ex TF-FSD). The first aircraft operated by the Icelandic Coast Guard (ICG). The Icelandic Aviation Ministry originally bought it damaged from the US Navy on 17 September 1954, and registered it as TF-FSD. It was repaired by SAS in Copenhagen, and then given to the ICG on 10 December 1955, with the registration TF-RAN. It was used until 12 January 1963, and then parked until 1967, when it was tipped over by the wind, and later scrapped. The airframe was buried during the construction of Reykjavik airport in 1967. Used for maritime patrol and SAR.

Navy s/n 63998

Navy BuNo 63998, CAC c/n 0127, Hull no. 2069.

This Catalina was delivered to the Colombian Air Force as FAC612 in 1946. It was struck of charge by the FAC in 1974, but it had already been stored at the Bogota-Madrid airbase for several years by then. A private Colombian pilot purchased the aircraft together with former FAC619 and restored the aircraft in airworthy condition using parts from FAC619 as well. From 2003 until 2017 the aircraft deteriorated at Villavicencio. In December 2017 the aircraft was shipped to Germany and currently is being restored to flying condition by its new owner in Oldenburg.

Ex Spanish air tanker acquired by the museum in 2008 and flown to Australia as VH-EAX in 2009. Displayed in a World War II livery as used on the "Double Sunrise" service from Australia to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). The original G-AGIE (msn 808) was scuttled off Perth, Western Australia, in 1946. Qantas also operated PB-2B Catalina VH-EAX (msn 61148) from February 1948 to when it was wrecked in a storm in June 1949

Ex EC-FMC. Originally delivered as BuNo 64064.

Still parked here after all these years, and I think this plane sees little action. (Nikon D850 + Tamron 15-30mm F2.8 Di VC USD G2)

Photo by Steve Kraus.

Former US Navy 64002. Sold as N9548C in 1962. Reregistered as N331RS then sank in Lake Michigan after hitting a submerged object on landing in 1966. Wreck salvaged and moved to the Victory Air Museum in 1972. To the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH for parts and scrapped after the Victory Air Museum closed in 1986.

Ex N999AR, N1022G, CF-VIG, N788C, CF-VIG, N9588C, USN 46662. Still current in 2023, registered to Liberty Aviation Museum, Ohio. Seen here after landing on Plymouth Sound, to celebrate the arrival of a US Navy Curtiss NC-TA flying boat NC-4 in Plymouth on 31 May 1919, and the 75th anniversary of US Naval aviation.

In storage at EMA. This aircraft had been used as a water bomber. To US Navy with BuNo 64017. To the US civil register and converted to a water bomber as N2846D then N5555H coded E87. In 1964 to France with the Securite Civile as F-ZBAV. To Avalon Aviation as CF-HNH in 1966 and leased to Haydn Air Charter (Norway) from 1978 until 1985. To the UK as G-BPFY on 23 Dec 88 with Aces High Ltd. To N212DM on 6 Jun 1989 then back to G-BPFY on 05 Mar 1990. To the US as N285RA on 19 Aug 1998. The registration was cancelled on 22 Mar 2006 and the aircraft was exported to Israel where it is currently on display at the Israeli Air Force Museum at Hatzerim Airport.

Ex CF-HNH, F-ZBAV, N5555H, N2846D, US Navy 64017. Last operated by Haydn Air Charter (Norway), on lease from Avalon Aviation. Became G-BPFY on 25 October 1988, switching to US marks as N212DM twice before finally being cancelled as G-BPFY on 19 August 1998, on transfer to US marks as N285RA. Subsequently sold in 2008 to the Israeli Air Force Museum for preservation in false IDF marks as 3401.

Fire bomber photographed undergoing maintenance, the registration can just be discerned under the wing, it was re-registered N324FA to Airborne Fire Attack Inc. the following month, and it was planned that it would replace PBY-5A N322FA which had come to grief whilst scooping water at San Vincente Reservoir in August of that year. However for whatever reason this never happened and it passed to the Commemorative Air Force, (CAF), and after the discovery of severe airframe corrosion it is now exhibited statically at the CAF Lake Superior Squadron, at Richard I. Bong Airport, Superior, WI.

This PBY-6A was built for the US Navy 46645 in 1945 before being sold and reregistered N10013 in 1956. It then went to Canada as CF-IZO and reregistered C-FIZO in 1983. In 1990 it was sold to the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum where it was restored to flying condition with the tail fin of the PBY-5A. It was flown along the coast to the Norwegian Aviation Museum in Bodø where it is currently displayed. On the way, the aircraft made low passes over the homes of former Catalina crew members. The real FP535 was Catalina Mk III that was lost on a search and rescue flight north of Iceland 5 November 1942.

Operated by SAESA