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Serial #: 68045 Construction #: CV-592 Civilian Registration: VR-HDH VH-SBV Model(s): PBV-1A OA-10A Name: None Status: Restoration/Display Last info: 2002? |
History: Delivered to USAAF as 44-34081 Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Hong Kong, Nov. 1946. - Registered as VR-HDH. Macau Air Transport, Macau, 19??. Trans Australian Airlines, July 6, 1962-1966. - Registered as VH-SBV, 1963. - Last flight, Port Moresby, PNG, Jan. 5, 1966. - Damaged during fire practice, Port Moresby, PNG, 19??. Dismantled and shipped from PNG to Auckland, Sept. 1975. MOTAT/D.F. Keith Memorial Park, Auckland, 1976-1986. RNZAF Museum, RNZAF Wheniapai, 1987-2002. - Under static restoration. |
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Photo Source(s):
Dave McDonald via Mike R. Henniger.