The aircraft was flipped over in windstorm whilst it was moored at Rose Bay on 12-08-2019. The dismantled airframe was exported to Canada and was last noted stored at Campbell River, BC., in January 2020, however, the registration C-GSBN was allocated to it on 30 November 2023 so presumably restoration is underway. The registration VH-AAM is now carried by a Tecnam P-2008. (With thanks to DHC-2. com).

Registered in April 2020

Jeff Atkinson photo. VH-AAM was cancelled in November 1958 due to oil contamination of the wing centre section. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Coasting to a stop at the Sydney Seaplanes terminal, Rose Bay. This Beaver was built in 1961 and delivered to the Ghana Air Force, registered G-213. It seems to have made its way to the USA around 1974, being civil registered as N37772. In 1976 it came to Australia, being re-registered as VH-IMR on 17 September that year. It was later re-registered again as VH-AAM(3) on 13 April 1992 and named 'Caledonia' after one of the old Empire flying boats that used to operate out of Rose Bay.

VH-AAM was sold in New Zealand as ZK-MAP in December 1984.