waterbomber

Photo by Roberto Yáñez


Photo by Roberto Yáñez



Photo by Roberto Yáñez


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Me and Dasa continue to work on the tanks.

Dasa.


Nice clips:
 

PBY landing

PBY Catalina 62-P - Engines Start - Idle - Takeoff

Francisco "Paco" Dasa and I undoing the 600+ fuel tank screws.


Where the blisters once were.


Beautiful day #1 +15C

Airtanker vs fiskargubbar

F-ZBAZ

Model: PBY-5A
BuNo #: 64064, C/N #: 2134
Registreringar: N10014, CF-IZZ,   F-ZBAZ,  C-FIZZ, Tanker #5/795  EC-940, EC-FMC.

Bakgrund:
Byggd vid Consolidated  Lake Ponchartrain, New Orleans.
-August 1945 USN, Airforce atlantic fleet command.

-1946 VP-73, VP-AM-4 and VP-34.

-1950´s, I tjänst vid olika enheter. Sista militära stationering vid NARN i Akron, Atlanta.

-Augusti 1956, Litchfield Park.

-1956, CF-IZZ, World Wide Airways, för tjänst i Canada. "blisters" och nostorn togs bort. Ombyggd från -6A till-5A.
-1965, Montreal Air Service, Montreal, Quebec.

-1965, Konverterad till vattenbombare.
-1966, Kenting Air Ltd, Toronto, Ontario.
-1966, 20 maj. Registered as F-ZBAZ.

-1966-1973, Protection Civile, Marseilles, som Pelican Noir /"Black Pelican".
-1973,  CF-IZZ. Field Aviation Co Ltd, Toronto, Ontario
-1977-1989, C-FIZZ. Avalon Aviation Ltd, Red Deer, Alberta.
-1991-2009, as EC-940. EC-FMC SAESA, Cuatro Vientos, Spain.
-2009 såld till Sverige. Kommer att göras i ordning och ferryflygas under våren sommaren.
She will be made airworthy in the next few months and flown to Sweden when ready. I intend to keep her pretty much as is with the waterbomber equipment and all


Åke tar bort resterna av den senaste F/E´n!
Åke removes the remains of the last F/E


Arbetet kan börja.