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S/N B-141
Manufactured in 1945 JRF-5 Bu87747
US Navy
NC41996
Humble Oil & Manufacturing - Humble, Texas 1945-1954
Freeport Sulphur Co - Freeport, TX 1954-1963 re-reg. N2005 > N2003
Dean Franklin/Amphibian Parts Inc. - Miami, FL 1963-1966
Antilles Air Boats - U.S.V.I. 1966-1981
AAB ceased operations 11/9/81 stored at Alexander Hamilton
Airport. Damaged by hurricane 1985, abandoned as a wreck.
Dean H. Franklin Aviation Enterprises Inc. - Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1992-1999
Klaus D. Martin / European Coastal Airways - Munich, Germany 1999-2012
crated to Landsberied, Germany along with 3 additional Gooses
(HS-TOM, N28369, N79914)
Gus Greaux, mechanic from Trinidad
photo credit Frank Strnad
photo by Charles Freehling
photo credit Frank Strnad
Jim Flanagan, Leo Sato and Horatio Belmar
photo credit Jim Flanagan
photo credit Jim Flanagan
photo credit Keith Sessons
Currently in Germany.
See more at N28369
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