S/N B-46
Amazon Rubber Boom
Manufactured 1944 JRF-5 Bu37793
to RN FAA as FP471: BOC 4/24/44 SOC 3/5/45
Op -British Air Commission, USA
Rubber Development Corp. - Washington, D.C. NR46497 1945-1946
Arthur Williams/
British Guyana Airways Corp. 1946 - 1964 NC1048V / N1048V / VP-GAC
Guyana Airways Corp. 1964 -1969
Antilles Air Boats - U.S.V.I. 1973-1981
stored at Alexander Hamilton Airport, St. Croix until 1983
Dean H. Franklin - Miami, FL 1983-1984
Larry J. Siggelkow - Las Vegas, NV 1987-1992
Dean H. Franklin/Amphibians Inc. - Miami, FL 1992-2000
Dean H. Franklin Worldwide Aviation Distributors Inc. 2/1/00 to 5/10/00
Aero Accessories Inc. - Gibsonville, NC 2000 - 2005
purchased/dismantled into major components
Sam Damico - Pittsford, N.Y. purchased fuselage for planned rebuild of N327/1051
Antilles Seaplanes LLC - Gibsonville, NC offers Goose rebuild and sales April 2013
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photo credit Stephen Piercey
photo credit Stephen Piercey
photo credit Stephen Piercey
photo credit Stephen Piercey
photo credit Peter Vercruijsse
photo credit Gregg Arveson
Dean H. Franklin - Miami, FL
photo credit Glenn Arveson
British Guiana Airways (BGA) was a historic airline founded in 1939 by Art J. Williams and Harry Wendt. Originally operating Ireland flying boats and later Grumman G21-A Goose aircraft. The colonial government bought the airline in 1955. In 1969 the name was shortened to Guyana Airways.
Antilles Air Boats' N1048V was originally VP-GAC one of 4 operating at BGA.
AAB maintenance supervisors Victor Pinhiero and Claude Austin both worked at BGA before AAB.
Grumman JRF-5 / G21-A Goose c/n B-46 VP-GAD / Essequibo River
"The land of many waters"
STT
photo from Tom Anusewicz Collection
Post in Backcountry Pilot - Sept. 2011
