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