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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:PBY-5A Catalina
    Last Military Serial:48374 USN
    Construction Number:1736
    Last Civil Registration:YV-584CP
    Compressed ID:Consolidated PBY-5A sn 48374 USN cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Corporacion Ferrominera de Orinoco, CA, Puerto Ordaz

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-5A.
    Consolidated Vultee PBY-5A 48374

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 48374.

    1963

    To George B. Alder, Chatanooga, TN, with new c/r N9507C.

    To Carolina Aircraft Corp, Miami, FL keeping c/r N9507C.

    1965

    To Orinoco Mining Co, Pittsburgh, PA keeping c/r N9507C.

    1965

    To Orinoco Mining Co, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela with new c/r YV-P-DPZ.

    20 April 1966

    To Orinoco Mining Co, Pittsburgh, PA with new c/r N9507C.

    28 August 1967

    Civil registration, N9507C, cancelled.
    Exported to Venezuela.

    1975

    To Corporacion Ferrominera de Orinoco, CA, Puerto Ordaz with new c/r YV-O-CFO-2..

    March 1983

    To unknown owner with c/r YV-584CP.

    8 August 1988


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At the airport at Ciudad Guayana, located in Venezuela

    27 June 2002


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: 2002 photo at Puerto Ordaz - This was one of two Catalinas operated by the Orinoco Mining Company to ferry crews to and from a dredger constantly working on the Orinoco River.

    Circa 2011

    Scrapped.
    At Porto Ordaz in Venezuela.
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