SPang wrote:
Hi,
This is the 3rd in Europe in airworthy.
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"9767" (C/n 21996) is one of the 55 aircrafts build from Consolidated manufactured parts... for the RCAF as Canso A. American Father & Canadian Mother ;o)) In fact, "28-5ACF" is the designation (post-war) given to some original PBY-5A, Canso A & Co after commercial conversions... "Model 28" is the primary designation of Consolidated for the type (civilian).
I recommend the fantastic book of David Legg: "Consolidated PBY Catalina - The Peacetime Record" (Airlife) ... the Bible for all lovers of that plane... The reference!!!!
Cheers
SPang
In fact there are, arguably, more than three airworthy Catalinas in Europe - the obvious ones are G-PBYA (the most active by a long shot) followed by PH-PBY and C-FCRR/N9767, both of which have flown again after recent periods of inactivity. Depending on what definition of 'airworthy' is used (I don't want to start a thread on that!), there is also N423RS at North Weald which last flew almost 13 months ago and 5B-PBY registered in Cyprus but resident in Greece and which flies occasionally although I do not have a date for its most recent flight.
'SPang' is generous in his praise of my book but it is now ten years old, out of print and out of date! The 'Survivors' section, by its very nature, was always bound to get morwe and more innacurate as time passed In addition, the book was largely put together in pre-internet/e-mail times and a lot more info and some corrections have come to light. I should think there is minimal chance of a revised edition (Airlife ceased trading not long after it was published) but I do intend producing a privatey distributed update at some point.
BTW, the submarine sunk by RCAF9767/C-FCRR/N9767 was U-342.
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