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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:PBY-5A Catalina
    Last Military Serial:48396 USN
    Construction Number:1758
    Last Civil Registration:N10609
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-5A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 48396.

    To Frank A. Froeling, Coral Gables, FL with c/r N10609.

    From By 1964 to By 1970

    To Frank A. Froeling, Miami, FL with c/r N10609.

    Circa 1972

    Withdrawn from use and stored derelict at Miami, FL.

    Reported as transferred to a technical school in Oklahoma.

    October 2004

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    The derelict and complete fuselage was moved to Pima for use in the restoration of N322FA.
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    25 June 2009

    Civil registration, N10609, cancelled.

    9 September 2011


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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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