Grumman HU-16B N24BM (c/n G-219) at Dallas-Love Field, Texas in November 1981. It had been loaned to an air museum in Michigan but when it closed down, impounded by USAF Museum and auctioned in 1974. Despite several owners, it still wore the weathered USAF grey scheme with "Katanga" stencilled on fuselage from its time on US consulate support in Africa. Photo: Geoff Goodall

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