"Apache III"
Oct. 1948
photos credit Charlie Freehling
photos credit Charlie Freehling
C/N J-10
N2947
11-46 Grumman Aircraft, demonstrator
Bethpage, NY
hull damaged and repaired
07-47 Popular Mechanics Magazine
named "Apache III"
Chicago, IL
12-10-48 Meurer Company Inc.
New York, NY
12-13-48 Bower Roller Bearing Co.
07-29-55 renamed Bower Roller Bearing Div.
Federal Mogul-Bower Bearings
Detroit, Michigan
09-28-55 3,770 hrs.
03-17-61 Federal-Mogul-Bower Bearings, Inc.
Detroit, Michigan
08-09-72 Frakes Aviation Inc.
Angwin, CA
C-GHLA
11-18-74 West Coast Air Service
Vancouver, B.C.
06-25-75 13,400 hrs.
N26DF
05-26-78 Amphibian Sales Inc.
Dean Franklin
Miami, FL
09-27-78 15,700 hrs.
10-27-78 ANTL. Inc. (Resorts International)
Miami, FL
(leased to Antilles Air Boats)
09-11-81 AAB ceased operations (17,721 hrs.)
03-15-82 Virgin Islands Seaplane Shuttle
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
04-03-84 severe wing damage during maintenance
withdrawn from service
(19,450 hrs.)
07-84 dismantled and shipped to
Frakes Aviation for G-73T conversion
12-84 Associated Consultants International
(affiliated with VISS)
N610SS
-85 reregistered; G-73T but conversion
never completed
09-24-91 sold to Frakes Aviation