Tuesday, October 02, 2018

A Catalina with 43 years of storage in a WW2 hanger on a training base... hasn't flown since 1975. In Gananoque, Ontario, the heart of the St.Lawrence River’s Thousand Islands region.


The 1943 amphib airplane (can take off and land in water or airport) is taken outside once a year for a complete wash and waxing by its owner. This flying boat is more properly named a Canadian-Vickers PBV-1A Canso, a Canadian-built version of the more commonly known Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina. She served in the Royal Canadian Air Force beginning in June 1944

David Dorosh registered the Canso in 1962 with the intent to fly it as a water bomber fighting forest fires but, for whatever reason, his partners backed out of the deal, so the aircraft never underwent a conversion for this function. He's stored it ever since


In an original military hangar on a relief landing field which retains its original BCATP triangular runway layout, built for the Royal Air Force’s No.31 Service Flying Training School at nearby RCAF Kingston between 1940 and 1945, in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/uscan09.htm
http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/the-ghost-of-gananoque-a-flying-boat-in-a-barn.html
https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Consolidated-Canadian-Vickers-PBV-1A-Canso-A-28/1249783
https://www.catalina.org.uk/2014/01/13/world-catalina-news-january-2014/

1 comment:

  1. Technically it's an amphibian. Catalina flying boats didn't have landing gear.

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