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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:PBY-6A Catalina
    Last Military Serial:46679 USN
    Construction Number:0101
    Last Civil Registration:VH-PBZ
    Compressed ID:Consolidated PBY-6A sn 46679 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Inc, Albion Park Rail, NSW

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-6A.

    1 January 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 46679.

    To Aircraft Instrument Corp, Miami, FL with new c/r N9562C.

    14 January 1977

    Civil registration, N9562C, cancelled.

    To unknown owner with c/r CC-CNF-0847.

    To Aerocondor Transportes Aereos with new c/r CC-CCS.

    By January 1986

    To Aeroservicios Parrague keeping c/r CC-CCS.

    27 January 1986

    Involved in an incident.
    During water takeoff from Lake Guttierez, Argentina, the aircraft struck an object, possibly a dead tree. The aircraft veered to the left and the pilot aborted the takeoff. The aircraft collided with the water and sank.

    25 August 1989

    To Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Inc, Albion Park Rail, NSW with new c/r VH-PBZ.

    2006


    Photographer: Unknown

    The Historical Aviation Restoration Society (HARS) currently fly Catalina PBY-6A BuNo 46679 VH-PBZ marked as A24-362.

    26 February 2015


    Photographer: Graham Speirs
    Notes: 2015 photo at Avalon, Victoria

    2 September 2023

    Civil registration, N9562C, cancelled.

    21 October 2024


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: A24-362 at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS), Albion Park, NSW
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