Warbird Information Exchange

Yep, Beachgirl, a Canso is RCAF-speak for PBY. As for world crusing in one, many of them have done it including Lone Star's. N68740 was flown around the world in the late seventies be two former owners. It entertained middle Eastern royalty along the way too.
"A PBY is like an old VW bug. It's so ugly it's cute. It flies like truck but dont ever underestimate it." (Carl D'Agnese, FAA inspect guy and PBY'er)
It's my fave warbird-my dad is a PBY veteran.

Doug Ratchford
the PBY guy at LSFM

Just in case anyone's interested: http://www.geocities.com/alaskangoose/1051.html

Just typed in the PBY...note the MP gauge, and the shutdown engine...

Hi Joe
Nice close up of 31325. LOVE those dash 4 spinners! Is that you muggin for the camera? I am gonna ask one dumb question though. Could you explain the p-boat atop the Milennium Falcon? Keep the pix coming.

Doug Ratchford "Canso42"

Back to the original subject of this topic, it should be noted that this particular aircraft is modeled by Microsoft in Flight Simulator X. It is a lot of fun to fly, so if you want to know what it's like to fly a Goose, just get FSX.

Not true. cn 1048 is the oldest one still around. Its the one in the smithsonian museum in Washington DC.

Very true.
I don't consider most museum airplanes as active, hence I have a tendency to ignore them.
Considering the everchanging list of active Grumman amphibians
I suspose I should have said "As of when 1051 crashed it was the oldest Goose still flying".

I've tracked down a few pictures of N322 you may or may not have seen.
Send me a PM and we'll talk off board.

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We also sold an old fuselage and wing center section to Sam Damico in Pittsford, NY to use to rebuild N327. He really has his work cut out for him - there wasn't a lot left after the crash in Penn Yan (is it already?) four years ago.

The fuselage he got from us came from N1048V (B-46) an ex-Antilles Air Boat airplane that had been salvaged by Dean Franklin. It was rough! And, for some reason, is still registered to Aero Accessories across the street from us. So far, Sam is working on N327 by himself; are there any volunteers up that way who might be able to give him a hand?

Sam has also told me that he has been trying to recover McKinnon G-21C serial no. 1202 from Bangladesh (registered as S2-AAD) for a while now. While not airworthy and missing its engines and instruments, it is unique because of the two "real" McKinnon G-21C's ever built, it is the only one remaining and it still has the nacelles if not the actual engines for the four Lycoming GSO-480's that McKinnon first used to modify the G-21 series.

As I mention in the other thread, the first (and only other "real") McKinnon G-21C (N150M s/n 1201), ceased to exist in 1960 when it was re-converted into the prototype and only McKinnon G-21D (s/n 1251). It still had the four Lycomings until 1966 or so when McKinnon used it as the prototype for his new turbine engine installations on the Goose.