Michel Lemieux wrote:
It is in ''fair'' condition.
Location is St-Hubert airport.
Title was always in question but now I guess the airport or the ground owner has rights to it. My guess.
The canvas is all shot pretty badly. It has quite a few dings!!!
It has severe corrosion in some places namely all the metal parts exposed like the landing gears.
The carburators were removed 15 years ago....and left uncovered.
It is all there....but need a LOT of work.
I would rather get the Gananoque ghost in Ontario:
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=54516&hilit=gananoque+ghostI believe this to be the same airframe for sale. The link was at the thread you provided above. FWIW....Also located at that link are pics and story of PBY-5A Catalina N483CV (c/n CV-483).
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/uscan09.htmThe website on Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers has the following information on this airframe:
Consolidated designed the Catalina PBY-5A, but Canadian Vickers of Montreal had a series license-built, whch were dubbed the Canso. C/n 264 is a Canso A/2R and saw its 1st flight on 31Jul1943.
Taken on strength 31Jul43 at Eastern Air Command, RCAF serial 9830.
With No. 116 (BR) Squadron in Newfoundland or Nova Scotia, c.1943 to 1944. Coded "P".
To Clark Ruse Aircraft Limited for repairs on 17Jul44, back to EAC on 30Sep44. Radar, nose gun installed 02Dec44. Redesignated as a Mk. 2R (search and rescue configuration) post war.
Had 735:15 hours on o6Jan1948, when it was delivered to de Havilland Canada for modifications. To Canada Car and Foundry for repairs on 29Sep49. Had 789:00 airframe time then.
To No. 6 RD for repairs on 06May1950. And again to de Havilland, this time for JATO installation, on 25Aug50.
To Aircraft Industries Ltd on 23Jun51 for repair to nose gear door and adjacent area. Back at AIL on 05Jan53 for repair of "excessive leak" in starboard fuel tank. Was based at RCAF Station Greenwood, NS by then, with No. 103 Rescue Unit.
To No. 6 RD on 08May53 for repairs, completed Jan54.
To AIL on 29Oct54 for electrical repairs and modifications. Still with 103 RU in March 1956.
To No. 6 RD on 11Mar57, for inspection and installation of SARAH radio homing equipment. To No. 11 Technical Support Unit (Montreal?) on 10Nov58 for inspection and weighing.
With No. 102 (KU) Composite Unit at RCAF Station Trenton by 03Apr59.
Stored at No. 6 Repair Depot, Dunnville, Ontario by 23Feb61. On 26Sep61 to Crown Assets Disposal Corporation for disposal.
Sold to Department of Lands and Forests, Province of Quebec. To civil register as CF-PQK.
Still airworthy with Quebec in 1976.
Sold to Foundation Aerovision of St. Hubert, PQ on 01Jun94, latest Certificate of Registration issued on 18May98 as C-FPQK.
Source: Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Nubers, RCAF 9801 to 9844