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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:PBY-5A Catalina
    Last Military Serial:46624 USN
    Construction Number:1989
    Last Civil Registration:N9502C
    Compressed ID:Consolidated PBY-5A sn 46624 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:The RAAFA Aviation Heritage Museum, Bullcreek, Perth, Western Australia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-5A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 46624.

    1953

    Assigned to for storage.
    Storage at NAF Litchfield Park, AZ.

    1956

    Struck off Strength/Charge.

    From 1966 to 1969

    To Southland Flying Service, Tohula, MS,.

    To Robert R. Schneider, Hawkins, TX with new c/r N9502C.

    1 April 2002

    Civil registration, N9502C, cancelled.
    Exported to Australia.

    To The Royal Australian Air Force Association, Bullcreek, Perth, Western Australia.
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    5 April 2014


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Aviation Heritage Museum of Western Australia, Bull Creek, Perth.

    5 April 2014


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the Aviation Heritage Museum of Western Australia, Bull Creek, Perth.

    To The RAAFA Aviation Heritage Museum, Bullcreek, Perth, Western Australia.
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    Mike Henniger
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