VH-EXG  Canadian Vickers PBV-1A Canso                       (c/n CV-369)

                              

                                   This Canso was delivered to the RCAF with serial number 11060 in April of 1944.   It was
                                   civilianized in 1966 as N609FF and flew as tanker # E40 with Firefly Inc of Portland, Or.
                                   It then was operated for a couple of years by Terra Survey Ltd of Ottawa although appears
                                   not to have carried a C- rego.  Executive Air Services of Essendon acquired it in 1972 and
                                   it is shown above in this Barry Maclean shot in their livery (sans port engine).  It then passed
                                   to the RAAF museum at Pt. Cook in 1989, although whether it is still there I am not sure.