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    Airframe Family: Martin PBM Mariner
    Latest Model:PBM-5 Mariner
    Last Military Serial:4722 USCG
    Compressed ID:Martin PBM-5 sn 4722 USCG
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Coast Guard

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBM-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 84722.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Coast Guard with s/n 4722.

    Markings Applied: R-22

    December 1952

    Ferry flight.
    Flown from Seattleand to the Coast Guard Air Detachment in Sangley Pt. P.I.

    Was used extensively for servicing Loran stations in the Philippines and SAR missions including aiding the rescue of some survivors of the crash of CG PBM 4738 (Big John Vukic) by dropping flares over the crash site, just off the coast of Swatow, Chinafor the USS Halsey Powell.

    2 February 1954

    Ferry flight.
    Returned to San Diego and was replaced in the Phillilpines by a Grumman UF-1G Albatross.

    If you know what happened to this beautiful aircraft after this, I would like to know: Ex-Lieutenant USCGR Charles A. Fischer, 3705 N. Vine Street, Victoria, Tx, 77901.


    Photographer: US Coast Guard Website (Public Domain)
    Notes: Many services developed Jet-Assisted-Take-Off (JATO) rocket packs to get a seaplane/amphibian airborne as quickly as possible - USCG 4722 photographed - unknown location or date

    T J Murphy comments (3 July 2021): The photo included here was shot just outside Salem Harbor where the Coast Guard maintained a base on Winter Island from 1935 through 1970. That is Hospital Point Lighthouse just below the starboard wingtip.
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