This Widgeon was delivered in 1941 as NC28679. It had a varied career with the USAAF (as 42-38217) and in Africa, lastly as N3103Q, until withdrawn from use in the mid 1970s and stored at Malta. It was bought by Lawrence Usher in 1987 and restored at Ipswich, UK. He registered it as G-DUCK on 15 Nov 1988. In 1992 the aircraft was shipped to the Musée de l'Hydraviation and later placed on display, painted as seen here. The Widgeon has its original registration NC28679 painted at the top of the tail. This is a composite airframe, with the wings, engines and props probably coming from Super Widgeon N750M c/n 1341.

Ex-N2GN, N86603, N663G, NC86603. Later N663G

VH-WET after being repainted in a new Coral Wings livery.

With small titles on the engines.

Grenold Collins was a pilot for a construction firm during WWII. After war's end he formed the Gren Collins Charter Airplane Service and Big Game Guide Service. In May 1948 he bought this Widgeon, BuNo 30151, from the Washington Fish & Oyster Co. for $12,000. It later became N79905 and N23456, still current as of 2020. Photo by: Grenold Collins / University of Alaska Anchorage

Preserved in the NMNA. Sold by USCG postwar, flying with four civil registrations, latterly N212ST. before repurchase by the museum for exhibition in early WW2 markings.

Modified lower fuselage for water landing tests.

Crashed at Big Lake, Alaska, on July 30, 1983.

Note the Mansdorf conversion which replaced the original engines with Lycoming radials.

A conversion by Arthur Stifel of Aeromar at Miami of a McKinnon Super Widgeon by installing Lycoming GO-480-B1D engines with reversing propellers. Neither turboprop nor turbocharged despite the name. Stifel set a now retired speed record in this aircraft in 1982. It also appeared in the British movie Firepower (1979).

Ex 5N-AMD. Registered to JMQ Inc of Gulf Breeze, FLA 21 February 2006.

Reregistered N480K in 2009.

Reregistered N45PV in 2005