PBY6-A, Bureau Number 33979 attached to the Naval Air Reserve
at NAS Seattle (Sand Point)
This PBY is on the ramp across from Sitka, Alaska in July 1949.
The crew, including Lt. Gene Guthrie, was on a special two weeks training
duty conducting an aerial survey of Southeast Alaska for possible seaplane
anchorages. The aircraft and crew were attached to the Seaplane Tender
U.S.S. Pine Island part of the North Pacific Fleet consisting of two
Seaplane tenders and several destroyers.

(Photo courtesy of Gene Guthrie)