PBY-5 CATALINA/Bu. 48426





Bureau #: 48426

Construction #: 1788

Civilian Registration:

N31235



Model(s):

PBY-5A Catalina

Steward-Davis Super Cat

Name: None

Status: Airworthy

Last info: 2003



History:

USN Department, Washington, DC, 1952-1955.

- Registered as N31235.

- Operated by Transocean Airlines, Oakland, CA, Apr. 1952.

- Operated for Trust Territory Air services, Guam, 1952-1955.

-- Forced landing, 275 mi. west of San Francisco, Sept. 30, 1955.

-- Recovered by ship and badly damaged.

Long Beach Aeromotive Inc, CA, 1956.

- Rebuilt.

C.S. Bearson, 1956.

R. Lyle Golding, Long Beach, CA, 1956-1958.

Pacific Airlines, /San Francisco, CA, 1958-1961.

Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines, Juneau, AK, 1961.

Alaska Coastal Airlines, Juneau, AK, 1963-1966.

Alaska Airline, Inc, Seattle, WA, 1969.

Robert P. Schlaefli/SLAFCO, Moses Lake, WA, 1972-1999.

- Flown as tanker #80 (later #98).

Carmacks Commercial Corp, Anchorage, AK, Nov. 2003.







Source(s):

Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.

Federal Aviation Administration.

Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.

Photo Source(s):

Nicolai Musante



Research Assistance:

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