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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:Canso A
    Last Military Serial:11055 RCAF
    Construction Number:CV-359
    Last Civil Registration:VH-AGB {2}
    Compressed ID:Canadian Vickers Canso A sn 11055 R...
    Latest Owner or Location:Trans Australia Airlines, Melbourne, Vic

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a Canso A by Canadian Vickers.

    From 20 March 1944 to 27 June 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 11055.

    1948

    To The Babb Company (Canada) Ltd of Montreal.

    30 December 1948

    To Photographic Survey Co Ltd of Toronto.

    30 August 1949

    To Kenting Aviation Ltd, Toronto, ON with new c/r CF-GKI.

    14 December 1952

    Departed Montreal en route to Papua on survey work for Aeromagnetic Surveys Ltd. on behalf of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.

    24 September 1956

    To Hunting Aero Surveys Ltd, Boreham Wood, Herts., U. K.

    16 November 1956

    To Adastra Hunting Geophysics, Sydney, NSW with new c/r VH-AGB {2}.

    8 June 1962

    To Trans Australia Airlines, Melbourne, Vic keeping c/r VH-AGB {2}.
    Parked at Bankstown, NSW and used as a source of spares for TAAs Catalina VH-SBV.

    May 1963


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Adastra Aerial Surveys imported this Canadian-built Catalina in 1956 for magnetometer mineral survey work in Australia. It was a former Royal Canadian Air Force PBV-1A Canso A, built by Canadian Vickers. After retired by Adastra, it was stripped for parts for TAAs Catalinas in Papua New Guinea. In May 1963 it was outside the Bristol Aviation Services hangar at Bankstown.

    12 May 1966

    Civil registration, VH-AGB {2}, cancelled.

    4 April 1967

    Broken up at Bankstown by Garthon Scrap Metals of Caringbah.
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