Fairview Aircraft Restoration Society Consolidated PBV-1A Canso C-FNJE

Photographer's remark
(18.3.2018, 20:23 CET)
Thankfully this Canadian Canso is still flying. She first flew in 1943 as a patrol bomber during WWII. After the war she was converted to a Water Bomber and attacked fires in Newfoundland and Western Canada. In 2001 while fighting fires in Inuvik, NWT area she started taking in water and sank in 100 feet of water. She was floated to the surface and pulled ashore at Sitidgi Lake, C-FNJE was restored and flies again. Seen here at RIAT.

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