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- Construido por Consolidated Aircraft, en San Diego para la RCAF según Contract Can #78.
RCAF 9743 Taken on strength, 2 January 1942
- Ordered by RCAF as a Catalina, equivalent to PBY-5.
- Order converted to amphibian before completion.
- Renamed Canso on 22 December 1941.
- No. 5 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS on 6 January 1941, coded "N".
- Category B crash at Gander, Newfoundland on 15 December 1942, still with this unit.
- Clark Ruse Aircraft for repairs on 18 December 1942, completed on 15 April 1943.
- Used by No. 160 (BR) Squadron from RCAF Stations Yarmouth, NS and / or Torbay Newfoundland, c.1943/45. Coded "B".
- Back with No. 5 Squadron when it carried out Eastern Air Command's last u-boat attack, on 3 May 1945, while on convoy escort out of Yarmouth, NS. No observed results.
- storage on 6 June 1945.
- At Ancienne Loirette, PQ by 8 August 1945.
- Struck off, to War Assets for sale, 20 February 1947
0275 Armada Argentina, Comando de Aviación Naval 17.9.1948
- Características:
- 2-P-19 Escuadrilla de Patrulleros de la Fuerza Aeronaval de la Zona Naval Marítima, Base Aeronaval Comandante Espora,
- 3-P-1 COAN el 17.09.48.
- 2-P-7 Escuadrilla de Patrulleros 01.01.53. - 1° Escuadrilla de Patrulleros 1955.
- Aterrizaje forzoso en 10.56 en la Base Aeronaval Comandante Espora durante un vuelo de pruebas.
- Asignado al Grupo Aeronaval Antártico en la Campaña 1956-1 957.
- 5-P-7 Grupo Aeronaval de la Flota, BNMdP 14.11.58,
- 5-P-3. Grupo Aeronaval de la Flota
- 2-P-305, 3° Escuadrilla Aeronaval de Exploración 14.05.59.
- 3-G-1 Escuadrilla Aeronaval de Propósitos Generales 24.09.59.
- Descargado por Planilla e7/6l y vendido como material de rezago el 01.09.61.
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