Originally built in Canada for the USN as PBV-1A Bu68045, then transferred to the USAAF as OA-10A 44-34081. According to the museum there is no intention to fully restore the aircraft, but visitors can still view the conserved aircraft in the conservation workshops.

On its way to its new owner, from South Africa to San Diego, what better place to stop-over than in Curacao, Dutch Caribbean? N427CV is seen here basking in the sun after a little morning shower.

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.

Ex N691RF, CF-OWE, RCAF 11074. Became N222FT and still current in 2023. What I took to be (and hoped was) a flypast before touch down turned out to be a too-high landing approach, which very nearly ended in tragedy when it struck a buoy, tearing off the port wingtip.

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.

'Navy Mystery Plane'. This is the prototype of the PBY Catalina. It had just flown non-stop from Coco Solo, Panama to San Francisco in 34 hours and 45 minutes. The aircraft underwent modifications over the winter and became the XPBY-1 as the P3Y was redesignated PBY. The building in the background belongs to the old Alameda Airport, just to the east of the new Naval Air Station Alameda which opened in 1940. Photo from: San Francisco Examiner / UC Berkeley Library

Flown on survey work throughout southern Africa for Geoterrex in the mid 1970s and early 1980s. Subsequently became G-BLSC, VR-BPS and VP-BPS. Crashed in Southampton Water 27th July 1998 and sadly, despite attempts to restore the aircraft, she was scrapped at Dublin, Weston in 2012.

Operated by the Quebec Government.