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    Airframe Family: Consolidated PBY/OA-10 Catalina / Canso
    Latest Model:C-10 Catalina
    Last Military Serial:6551 FABr
    Construction Number:1959
    Last Civil Registration:N4583B
    Compressed ID:Consolidated C-10 sn 6551 FABr cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBY-5A.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 46595.

    To unknown owner with c/r N9501C.

    By 1963

    To Panair do Brasil with new c/r PT-AXM.
    Operated for Brazil Petrolium Company, S.A (Petrobras).

    From 5 February 1968 to 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Forca Aerea Brasileira with s/n 6551 as a C-10.
    Operated in the Amazon Basin.

    April 1981


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: At Belem

    1982

    To Julio Cesar AB, Brazil.
    WFU, kept in open storage.

    22 December 1983

    To David C. Tallichet/Project Catalina/Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation, Long Beach, CA with new c/r N4583B.

    By March 1984

    Ferry flight.
    Delivered to Ft Lauderdale FL from Brazil.

    July 1984

    Ferry flight. Delivered to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    Nose gear collapsed on landing.
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    23 December 1984


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Recent arrival

    19 September 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: On the restoration ramp with new coat of paint for celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the USAF.

    By July 1988

    Markings Applied: Snafu Snatchers, 433879
    Painted and marked as OA-10A 433879 (44-33879, Canadian-Vickers PBV-1A).

    21 July 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Mostly restored, now displayed in museum. Nose and turret still undergoing work.

    16 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

    2 November 2011


    Photographer: Andrew King

    2 December 2014

    Civil registration, N4583B, cancelled.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Wrecks and Relics
    Internet Sources
     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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