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Built 1945 for the US Navy with the Bureau No 63993. Served until 1953 when she was placed in store in Arizona. Purchased by the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) in 1956. Overhauled at New Orleans and delivered to Denmark in December 1957. Her original RDAF serial was 82-866 but she was renumbered as L-866 during 1960. Her final operational flight was in July 1970 and she was then stored at Vaerloese until purchased by the RAF museum in 1972. In May 1974 she was flown to RAF Colerne and handed over to the RAF Museum. In late 1975 she was moved to Cosford by road and has remained on display there ever since.
In the last two years she has been moved outside, surely not the best place for such an historic airframe. My personal opinion is that mounted on a plinth with her wheels and floats retracted she would take up very little ground space and with a bit of thought she could easily be moved back indoors.
RAF Museum, Cosford, Shropshire, UK.
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9th June 2018
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/65001151@N03">Alan Wilson</a> from Peterborough, Cambs, UK
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajw1970/46117668935/">Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina ‘L-866’</a>