Chappie wrote:
Wow. Where was this show? Beautiful Grumman Gooses...er Geese?
Chappie
I counted only
one Grumman G-21A Goose, N42GL (s/n B-52) - and
one Grumman G-73 Mallard, N1888T (s/n J-31)
The other so-called "Grumman" seaplanes were actually:
one
McKinnon G-21G Turbo Goose (
N70AL, s/n
1226, which officially stopped being a "Grumman" in March 1970 when it was converted by McKinnon from ex-USN model JRF-5 s/n B-125, Bu. no. 87731. Because it was converted by McKinnon almost directly from surplus military stock, it was never certified as a civilian "Grumman" model G-21A and also contrary to many other reports, it never carried the registration N60AL, which was requested by McKinnon but never actually "taken up" as they say...)
and
two
French-built
SCAN Type 30 Widgeons which appear to be
N350GW and
N540GW (SCAN serial nos.
4 and
3 respectively*) which in spite of their current registrations have never actually been "Grumman" aircraft at all; they are just license-built
metric copies of the Grumman G-44A design. Both of these SCAN Type 30 Widgeons have had the Magnum TIO-540-J2BD engine conversion and they belong to what I expect are brothers - Steven and Mark Taylor, who apparently live right down the road from each other.
*For Widgeons, proper identification is simple:
if the serial number is from
1 to
41, it is a French
SCAN Type 30,
if the serial number is from
1201 to
1400, it is a
Grumman G-44,
and if the serial number is
1401 or
higher (up to
1476 actually) it is a
Grumman G-44A.
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