The Portuguese naval museum is a wonderful place to admire the exploits of Portuguese seafarers. This Widgeon is one of the aircraft on display.

Sold in the US as N70AQ in December 1984. Bob Kerr photo

First registered NC86615 for pre-delivery flight testing by Grumman, this Widgeon was registered CF-EHD when delivered to Algoma Steel Ltd August 12, 1946. It was converted to a Super Widgeon by Link Aeronautical in 1951. The next twenty years it would go back and forth across the border as N75071 and N71Q, CF-WFM to N4018 by 1969. Sitting idle 1992 -2018 with a new owner reverting the registration to N71Q in 2014, the aircraft flew again in August 2018.

This Widgeon rolled off the production line in January 1947, but was stored until delivery in March 1948 to private owner. Registered N86641, the aircraft crashed landing on Lake St Clair in Michigan on May 19, 1953. Salvaged after it sank, the aircraft took to the air again in the mid 80s and was registered N86649 in 1987. The aircraft was modified to a Super Widgeon in 1988.

US Navy J4F-2 Bu 37713 1943 until sold surplus in 1946. This Widgeon became NC58828 (later N58828) with private owner Angus G. McKinnon. Teaming with Vernon Hickman, the Super Widgeon conversion was developed by the McKinnon - Hickman Company and the aircraft was converted in 1953. Registered CF-HAC in Canada after the upgrade, the aircraft returned to the USA in 1958 as N137B and after 1984, N778D.

US Navy Grumman JRF-5 Goose 87744 (cn B-138) served 1945 - 52. The US Department of Interior, Fish & Wildlife Service flew it as N779 1954 - 64 before the the amphibian was converted to a McKinnon G-21C Turbo Goose (new cn 1203) and sold to the Government of British Columbia as CF-BCI. Airline service was next with Air West / Air BC 1973 - 84 before uprated engines changed the aircraft to a G-21G and the it was sold to Crown Forest Industries. To Peninsula Airways (PenAir) in 1991 as N660PA , it disappeared on a flight from Anderson Bay to Unalaska in Alaska on August 11, 1996.

This Turbo Goose was owned by the Halliburton Co. when at KNEW in Jan. 1985. G-21A, msn 1013, sold to J.P. Bickell and McIntyre-Porcupine Mines in Toronto as CF-BKE in 1938. Gift to RCAF in Sep. 1939 as No. 926. Flew in BC with No. 13 (OT), 120 (BR) & 122 (K) Sqns. (1940-1943). To RCAF Photo Flt and No. 167 (Comm) Sqn. (1943-45). To Charles H. Babb in Jan 1945 as NC18175. To Halliburton in Jun 1954. Cvt by McKinnon in Sandy, OR to G-21E Turbo Goose, msn 1211 with P&WC PT6A-27s in May 1970. Sold Nov 1992 to Air Power. To Stallion Aircraft/John Rogers 1995. Crashed KBPA, Jun 13, 1995. 2 killed.

US Navy J4F-2 bu 37757 from November 1944 until struck off strength in July 1947 after a training accident. Bought and repaired, the amphibian was registered NC63350 in 1949. Spending the majority of civilian life in Alaska, it was converted in May 1958 to a McKinnon Super Widgeon using McKinnon kit and Lycoming GO-480 engines. The current owner bought the aircraft in 1989. After a landing accident on September 7, 1991 where the aircraft nosed over landing with the parking brake engaged, it went through a 13 month rebuild where corrosion found was also repaired.

E ZK-ERX, N5558, TF-ISR, USN 37809 (JRF-5). The original Grumman c/n was B-62, a new c/n being allocated in 1969 when it was converted to turboprop power by McKinnon.

Delivered to Tradewinds Aviation in June 1975, but nosed aver and sank during landing a year later. It was recovered and restored afterwards. Photo via G. Bouma

This Grumman Goose (B-125) was converted to P&WC PT6A-27 turboprop engines by McKinnon Enterprises in 1970 to become G-21G Turbo Goose, msn 1226. The aircraft was a corporate aircraft in Alaska and in Louisiana before entering private ownership. The owner flew the aircraft from Oakland Country Airport, Michigan to Hammondsport, New York to attend the 2007 Glenn H. Curtiss Museum seaplane fly on Keuka Lake.

This Grumman G-21 Turbo Goose aircraft was converted to P&WC PT6A-20 turboprops by McKinnon Enterprises of Sandy, OR for the Government of British Columbia. It was later operated by Airwest (alongside C-FAWH) and Air BC (Pattison Industries) in Vancouver before it was sold to Crown Forest Industries in June 1984. It was one of 23 aircraft that participated in the Expo 86 Bushplane Flypast on May 5, 1986. It's seen water taxing past the Expo 86 Aviation Plaza on False Creek in downtown Vancouver. As Pen Air's N660PA it crashed into the sea off Dutch Harbour, Alaska on August 11, 1996.