Which BPY?

I can understand how you would have missed it then as at that size the text would have been v difficult to decipher!

Thanks. Consul, I watched it on my cellphone, must have missed that. Hope someone buys it and completes the restoration. It looks amazing!

I got the chance to take a good look at the aircraft, and discuss it with its owner a couple of years back.

He told me it was the last PBY produced, was sold surplus for firefighting but never converted for tanker duty.

The owner said it it was very stock inside (from what I could see from a maintenance stand, I concur) and it has “interior equipment that the PBY at the Museum of Naval Aviation doesn’t have”.

I spent a lot of time looking at the bow turret and cockpit, and from what I could see, it is very correct.

He is a maritime engineer by trade and said he wasn’t in a huge hurry to finish the job. As the website notes, it’s based at Moses Lake in the central Washington desert the other side of the Cascade mountains from Seattle…the field is the former Larson AFB and was the terminus for the first flight of the B-47, and the USAF acceptance center for B-52s and long time Boeing test base.

Not sure why you’re asking as the video credit by the owner at the end identifies it as Bu 64107 msn 2177. This means it is N9825Z. If you need more details here is a link to an external image:
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/pbyregistry/pby-64107.html