 One of the first groups that left encountered rain and fog while flying between Buffalo and Albany, New York and one of the aircraft crashed.The remaining 49 aircraft were successfully flown to Nova Scotia to be loaded onto "Béarn" and the light cruiser .Because of space limitations, only 44 of the SBC-4s could be carried on FR "Béarn"; because she also had 25 Stinson Model HW-75s (also known as Stinson 105s), 17 Curtiss H75-A1s (U.S. Army Air Corps P-36 and six Brewster F2A-2 Buffalos for the Belgian Air Force.