PK-CPE
Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
(c/n 85)
Here's an interesting shot, circa 1950. On the left
is the Caltex DC-3 PK-PAA. The Garuda Convair
is PK-GCE, while on the far
right is a RAF Handley Page Hastings with "343" on the fin. This
latter
was probably out of
RAF Changi, Singapore, and would clearly not have been there a decade
later
when the brouhaha with
Indonesia started after the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak,
North
Borneo and Brunei were
formed in May 1961. Anyway, PK-CPE was the former US
Navy BuAer
04996, and was
civilianized as NC1217M. Garudas named it "Enu"..