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Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:57 am
bilwor wrote:I hope this answers your question, Versatile
Grumman HU-16 Albatross bu no 137911 cn G.384 Identified both as HU-16C & HU-16D. Photo taken at Bob's Airpark (ACEP Inc) Tucson, AZ April 3, 1993 Currrently flying with Cavanaugh Flight Museum as N7027Z
"http://www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com/index.php/component/content/article/85"
"The HU-16D on display, Bureau No.137911 was accepted by the U.S. Navy on November 16, 1954 and assigned to the following locations. 15th Naval District, Naval Air Station (NAS) Coco Solo, Panama, Canal Zone 12/54-6/56. NAS Annapolis, 12/56-5/57. 6th Naval District, NAS Jacksonville,05/57-01/59. NAS Pensacola, Fl, 01/59-05/59. NAS Alameda, 09/59-12/59. 14th Naval District, NAS Midway Island, 12/59-01/62. Fleet Air Western Pacific Repair Activity Naval Air Facility (FAWPRA) Atsugi, Japan 01/62-05/62. Pacific Missile Range Facility at NAS Kwajalein, Marshall Islands 05/62-03/64. NAS Agana, Guam 03/64-10/64. FAWPRA, Atsugi, Japan 10/64-02/65. NAS Agana, Guam 02/65-05/67. FAWPRA, Atsugi, Japan 05/67-09/67. Naval Air Warfare Development Center (NAWD) 09/67-11/67 and Naval Antarctic Support Unit (NASU) 11/67-01/70 at NAS Iwakuni, Japan. NAS North Island, CA, 01/70-02/70. Transferred to Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center, Tuscon, AZ 02/70 then stricken from Navy records May, 1970.
This aircraft was donated to the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in 2008."
From Warbirds Directory 2008
G-384 • UF-1 Bu137911 Davis Monthan AFB AZ: wfu, open storage 75/80
(17D) HU-16C offered for disposal: TT 4880 hours 16.4.80
Allied Aircraft Sales Inc, Tucson AZ/ behalf of
Grumman Aerospace Corp, St Augustine FL 9.3.81
N89LH (2 Lynn C. Hunt, Santa Rosa CA
N7027Z refiled as reg. candidate 7.11.88
Air Crane Inc, Opa Locka FL 1.89
Island Flying Boats Inc, Miami FL 4.89/93
South Florida Aviation Investments,
Opa Locka FL 3.93/99
Jay B. Koven, Montclair NJ 2.3.00/08
Any further info or corrections welcome
bill word
Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:08 am
Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:38 pm
bilwor wrote:There could have been more than 1 Albatross in the yard at that time. This is the only one I had a photo of. They did move the aircraft around so it could have been at another location in the yard.
bill word
Wed Aug 10, 2016 4:41 pm