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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:PBY-6A Catalina
    Last Military Serial:612 FAC
    Construction Number:CV-523
    Last Civil Registration:HK-2115P
    Latest Owner or Location:Vanguardia, Villavicencio, Meta

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    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-6A.
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    1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Colombiana with s/n 612.

    1974

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Fuerza Aerea Colombiana.

    To Giovanni Bord.
    It took Mr. Bord, a Colombian pilot and adventurer, 17 years to acquire FAC 612 and 619.

    Restored.
    Used spare parts from FAC619.

    Assigned civil registration: HK-2115

    Operated by Tala.

    Assigned civil registration: HK-2115P
    In the old Colombian aviation registration system the P indicated a privately operated aircraft.

    2003

    Giovanni Bord died in a plane crash in 2003 and since then the Catalina was flown only sparingly. For a few years, engine-runs were performed for maintenance, but after a while, disuse and lack of money made it a much less frequent event.

    2005


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: HK-2115P - Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina - ex Transportes AereosLatinamericanosat Villavicencio-La Vanguardia/Col. Airport (SKVV) in March 2005

    To unknown owner with c/r HK-2115P.

    To Vanguardia, Villavicencio, Meta.
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    2011


    Photographer: David Osborn
    Notes: At Villavicencio La Vanguardia

    11 March 2011


    Photographer: Alec Wilson
    Notes: 2011 photo taken at Villaviencio Vanguardia, Colombia. Photo displayed with written permission of Alec Wilson
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