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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:Landseaire
    Last Military Serial:9742 RCAF
    Construction Number:407
    Last Civil Registration:N68740
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as a Canso A.

    2 January 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 9742.

    1952

    Converted to a Landseaire by Southern California Aircraft Corporation at Ontario, CA.

    1954

    To Crocket and Gamboy Inc Fresno CA with new c/r N68740.

    1963

    To Flying Bonefish Inc of Carson City NV keeping c/r N68740.

    1966

    To Geraldine Cromack New York NY keeping c/r N68740.

    From 1968 to 1970

    To Freeport Indonesia Inc New York NY keeping c/r N68740.

    Operated by Darwin NT-West.
    Operated on courier runs.

    From 1972 to 1978

    To Lee Otterson Colusa CA keeping c/r N68740.

    1976


    Photographer: Graham Baker
    Notes: Photographed at Oakland Intl Airport, North Field, CA.CORRECTION: Photographs taken in 1976.

    1978


    Photographer: Graham Baker
    Notes: Photographed at Oakland Intl Airport, North Field, CA.

    1978


    Photographer: Graham Baker
    Notes: Photographed at Oakland Intl Airport, North Field, CA.

    1978


    Photographer: Graham Baker
    Notes: Photographed at Oakland Intl Airport, North Field, CA.

    From 1981 to 1988

    To University of Hawaii Honolulu HI keeping c/r N68740.

    24 June 1983

    Certificate of airworthiness for N68740 (28-5ACF 407) issued.

    From 1983 to 1989

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Aero Nostalgia Stockton CA.

    1990

    To Gary R. Larkins Auburn CA keeping c/r N68740.

    1990

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    1991

    Loaned to Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX.
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    3 October 1991

    To unknown owner with c/r N68740.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Houston, TX.

    April 1999


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: PBY Catalina (Lone Star Flight Museum) at Spirit Of Flight Airshow, Scholes Field, Galveston, Tx. April 1999.

    November 1999


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: PBY-6A Catalina (Lone Star Flight Museum) at Scholes Field, Galveston, Texas, Nov. 1999

    10 September 2012

    Civil registration, N68740, cancelled.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Houston, TX.

    24 October 2016


    Photographer: Chris Kennedy
    Notes: Now at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    19 October 2017


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Notes: In Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, USA 19. October 2017

    28 May 2018

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Markings Applied: X


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    Credits
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    Internet Sources
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose

    Individual Contributors
    Graham Baker
    Johnny Comstedt

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